Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: LGBTQIA+ Teaching Resources
LGBTQIA+ Inclusion Resources
- Use this LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Strategies and Resources Guide to identify specific teaching goals and receive short, manageable lists of strategies and resources that align with your goals.
- Check out the Pride syllabus! Inspired by the Black Lives Matter Syllabus, this comprehensive tool will help you identify resources for teaching LGBTQIA+ students and LGBTQIA+ content and issues of content, design, delivery, and external circumstances that may affect LGBTQIA+ students’ to optimize students’ learning experiences.
University of Pittsburgh Resources
- Access to Gender-Inclusive Housing Upon Availability and Not Guaranteed (Housing Services)
- Campus Maps for Identifying Single-Occupancy Restrooms (Student Affairs)
- Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program
- Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program: LGBTQ and Critical Sexuality Studies Minor
- Guidelines for Accessing Name Changes Across Pitt Systems (LGBTQIA+ Guidelines)
- Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: LGBTQIA+ Resources
- Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Pitt Queer Professionals
- Student Affairs: LGBTQIA+ Resources
- University Counseling Center
- University Library System: Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program – Oakland Campus
- University Library System: LGBTQIA+ Research Guide
- University Library System: The Underground Press @ Archives & Special Collections: Gay Press
Other Local Resources
Teaching and Learning Tools
- Creating LGBTQIA+ Friendly Communities in Healthcare & Education
- Gender-Inclusive Practices for Your Teaching
- LGBTQ–Inclusivity in the higher education curriculum: A best practice guide. Birmingham: University of Birmingham. [PDF – 10.77MB]
- Ward, N., & and Gale, N. (2016). LGBTQ-inclusivity in the higher education curriculum: A best practice guide. Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
- Also, see the The Ward-Gale Model for LGBTQ-inclusivity in Higher Education below.
- Pride Syllabus
- Stacey Waite’s Teaching Queer
- Teaching At Pitt: Queer praxis asks instructors to disrupt norms
- Trans Inclusive Practices in the Classroom
Queer, Queer Pedagogy and Queering
- Queer Pedagogy
- Learn more about Queer Pedagogy here: (available via Pitt Library)
- Mayo, & Rodriguez, N. M. (2019). Queer Pedagogies Theory, Praxis, Politics (Mayo & N. M. Rodriguez, Eds.; 1st ed. 2019.). Springer International Publishing.
- Stacey Waite’s Teaching Queer
- Teaching At Pitt: Queer praxis asks instructors to disrupt norms
- Learn more about Translating Queer Pedagogy to Praxis here: (available via Pitt Library)
- Nemi Neto, J. (2018). Queer pedagogy: Approaches to inclusive teaching. Policy Futures in Education, 16(5), 589–604.
Podcasts
Videos
The Ward-Gale Model for LGBTQ-inclusivity in Higher Education
| Language | Role Models | Curriculum Content | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Increasing Awareness | Avoiding abusive and discriminatory language | Signposting to LGBTQ organizations and events | Basic acknowledgement of gender and sexual diversity |
| Additive Approaches | Avoiding hetero-normative and cis-normative language | Access to mentors for LGBTQ-identified students | Inclusion of topics, themes and readings about LGBTQ identities |
| Transformative Practice | Critical engagement with queer/trans inclusive language | Role models and allies in the teaching and learning environment | Critical approaches to pedagogy, supporting social engagement and action/inclusive professional practice |