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Beginning at the beginning: Why do pronouns matter? What resources can help me better understand the conversation around pronouns and why “he/she” aren’t the only options?

A Guide to Using Pronouns and Other Gender-Inclusive Language in the Office” written by Stav Ziv for The Muse is about the workplace, but is very applicable to our school environments as well. To some readers, bringing attention to the gendered language we use may sound like common knowledge, and for some readers, it may feel like puzzling or uncharted territory. Some will ask why this matters, and it’s because we, as educators, care deeply about children and teenagers, and we strive to create classroom environments in which all of our students feel safe, supported and ready to learn. Predicative dative; Gerunds and gerundives; The gerund; The gerundive; Gerundive looking like a gerund ('impersonal neuter gerundive of obligation'); Gerund changed into gerundive ('gerundival attraction'); Conditional sentences; Conditionals (1): open or unknown; Conditionals (2): closed or remote; Wishes and fears for the present and past; Use of quin and quominus, and verbs of preventing ; Conventions of extended narrative; Extended indirect speech (' oratio obliqua'); Subordinate clauses in indirect speech; Open or unknown conditionals in indirect statement; Closed or remote conditionals in indirect statement The gender style guide that is housed on Lupercal’s blog presents a framework for using inclusive language when speaking or writing Latin. The post is thoughtful, thorough, and presents explanations for the committee’s decisions on creating the style guide. I find this resource especially helpful if you have students who are interested in writing or speaking Latin and want to be gender-inclusive. In addition to helping students of underrepresented genders feel included, when we do this we are modeling for all our students how they too can use inclusive language practices.

About the contributors

Jenn Jarnagin has taught Latin at the Episcopal School of Dallas in Dallas, TX for the past six years, and taught Latin for twelve years prior to that. She is passionate about making Latin fun and inclusive, and believes that every student deserves to see themselves reflected in her classes. Jenn utilizes research-based practices that help all students find success. In addition to her work in the classroom, Jenn also serves on the Finance Committee of ACL. She holds a B.A. from the Louisiana Scholars’ College at Northwestern State University, and an M.A. from Indiana University. Connect with Jenn at magistraj.blogspot.com Similarly, the Biden-Harris administration have published a Toolkit for Transgender Equality that provides guidance on how best to include, respect and validate gender diverse people.

It can be difficult to replace these formulaic phrases in our vocabularies, but it is worthwhile to try. Like anything else, it requires practice, and having some alternative phrases on hand, in both English and Latin, can help us. Principal parts and the supine; Indirect statement; Future passive infinitive; Participles; Ablative absolute; Impersonal verbs and impersonal passive; Time clauses; Time clauses implying purpose or proviso; Cum clauses; Inverted cum clauses; Causal clauses; Concessive clauses; Paired and co-ordinated words; Conjunctions (1): connecting; Conjunctions (2): subordinatingStudents may come out as their real gender to different people at different times. When we have a student whose pronouns have changed but they haven’t yet shared that with the entire class, or when we are unsure of a student’s pronouns, calling a student by their name instead of using a pronoun is another helpful option.

Despite these efforts, “We mostly operated behind the scenes for the first 10 years,” says Lucy Hunter, ISLAA’s executive director. “Ultimately, we took a look at what we do at universities and started thinking about how that work could translate to a wider audience.” ‘Florece mi corazón’ (‘My Heart Blooms’) (1994) by Feliciano Centurión Still, ISLAA’s exhibition programme, which will encompass up to eight shows a year, is designed to offer a more diverse sample of work rarely exhibited in the US, says newly appointed chief curator Bernardo Mosqueira. “There is incredible attention for geometric abstraction, as if this was the most important or the only kind of art that has been produced from this region,” he says. “One of the main missions that we have here at ISLAA is to highlight the diversity [of Latin American art] and also complicate the narratives that are already here” in New York. In this post, I’ll give suggestions for how we can support our transgender students in particular, whether we choose to do that in big ways or little ones. The first thing we can do is to use non-gendered language when we have the opportunity. This requires us to examine common phrases that may have been “baked in” to how we interact with others, like “you guys,” “ladies and gentlemen,” and “boys and girls.” Salve!Firstofall,that'sawesomethatyou'redecidedtoteachyourselfLatin!It'ssouseful,contrarytowhatmanypeopleseemtobelieve,andyou'llreallyenjoyit!Similarly, this Gender Inclusive Language in Writing UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center handout can be shared with students to help them understand gendered language and ways to shift the language they use in their writing. Insider magazine’s “ What to know about gender pronouns, how to use them and why they are important” written by Canela Lopez and published in 2021 and “ How to Use Gender Inclusive Language, and Why It’s Important” written by Kim Elsesser for Forbes provide good overviews of the discourse surrounding pronouns, and the social shift taking place.