What is a microaggression? How do you respond to microaggressions? How can you avoid committing a microaggression? All these questions and more are answered in this academic meets public explanation (nothing like the rest of my posts!). LGBTQ+ issues are important to me, however, which is why I have a dedicated section here. Let me […]
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As I mentioned in my post about Why Inclusivity in Travel is important, waving a rainbow flag once a year is NOT enough. It’s important to have diversity and inclusion* in travel. Please share that post and this one with anyone who may benefit from this knowledge. With this importance in mind, let’s get to
First, let’s be clear. There are more ways to be an inclusive traveler than only including LGBTQIA+ individuals, from including differently abled bodies to colored bodies to different sized bodies. All of them are equally important, but this post focuses on why being more LGBTQIA+ inclusive is important because that’s my experience. I do not
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I prefer the term queer for myself. However, I know it has been a degrading and derogatory term for LGBTQIA+ people in the past. I am using it as a reclamation for my identity, but I am sorry if that term offends anyone. Queer is used interchangeably with LGBT and LBGTQIA+ on my site and
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