{"id":728,"date":"2024-07-14T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/?p=728"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:07:13","slug":"international-non-binary-peoples-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/2024\/07\/14\/international-non-binary-peoples-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Non-Binary People's Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is International Non-Binary People's Day, and we've put a few top tips together to help us all become better allies to non-binary people:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Dont make assumptions<\/strong> - This could be based on a person's appearance, name, or anything else. People who are non-binary don't owe the world androgyny. They may have a name you identify one with gender or another, but that doesn't mean that's how they identify.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do your research<\/strong> - It can be tiring being on binary and having people ask questions of you all the time. There are plenty of articles and forums online to help our with any queries you have. Or you can reach out to us at Kaleidoscope on <a href=\"mailto:lgbt-staff@bath.ac.uk\">lgbt-staff@bath.ac.uk<\/a> and we'll do our best to help!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Make an effort with pronouns<\/strong> - Using the pronoun \u2018they\u2019 is very useful when someone\u2019s gender or identity is unknown. Once you know someone\u2019s pronouns ensure you use the ones you have been asked to use. You can try introducing yourself with your pronouns to new people!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Start consciously amending your language<\/strong> - Instead of addressing groups of people with binary language such as \u2018ladies and gentlemen\u2019, try more inclusive alternatives such as \u2018folks\u2019, \u2018pals\u2019 or \u2018everyone\u2019. Use words that define the relationship instead of the relationship and gender. For example, use \u2018parents\u2019, \u2018partner\u2019, \u2018children\u2019 or \u2018siblings\u2019.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Online representation<\/strong> -\u00a0Put your pronouns in your email signature and Teams profile.\u00a0Even if you think is \u2018obvious\u2019 what your pronouns are, it makes it \u2018normalised\u2019 for everyone to share their pronouns and could make a non-binary person feel more comfortable to share theirs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Happy International Non-Binary People's Day!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-684 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2023\/06\/Non-binary_enby_pride_flag.svg_-300x180.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2023\/06\/Non-binary_enby_pride_flag.svg_-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2023\/06\/Non-binary_enby_pride_flag.svg_-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2023\/06\/Non-binary_enby_pride_flag.svg_-358x215.png 358w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/155\/2023\/06\/Non-binary_enby_pride_flag.svg_.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is International Non-Binary People's Day, and we've put a few top tips together to help us all become better allies to non-binary people: Dont make assumptions - This could be based on a person's appearance, name, or anything else....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notable-days"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd4Pwk-bK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/kaleidoscope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}