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Practicing Hospitality: pronouns for our name tags

gracekkohler on June 24, 2024

If you read this newsletter with some regularity, you may be noticing an emerging theme: celebrating our culture of hospitality, which has deep and strong roots in this place, while also reaching for more ways to extend tangible welcome to a wide range of folks. I’m grateful for the way that this welcoming stance seems to be woven into our DNA as a congregation, and I’m also really thankful for our vestry, who over the last several years have named expanding our welcome to the LGBTQ community as one of our core priorities.

Given this shared commitment to welcome, I’m delighted to share a quick and important way we can live it out. Many of you saw our new, improved, and highly readable nametags on Sunday (thank you, Tracy and Brooke!). Beginning this week, we will have pronoun stickers available on the rolling kiosk next to the nametags. If you would like to, please choose a sticker with the pronouns you use and add it to your nametag. Et voilà! It’s that simple.

Here’s the reason for this addition: when more of us share our pronouns, we can help to create a culture where it’s easier for others, in particular transgender and nonbinary folks, to share what pronouns they use. Adding the sticker is a visible way to normalize sharing pronouns and all practice paying a little more attention to how we can use language with care and respect. And, of course, it’s absolutely fine if you don’t want to add a sticker or share your pronouns — there are many good reasons why you might not want to, and we will all respect and honor that choice too.

If the idea of sharing pronouns is new to you, as it is to many of us, you may find this quick primer helpful. It explains some background on thinking about gender and how we speak about it, as well as how to practice using pronouns in new ways (especially using they/them as a singular pronoun!) and what to do if you make a mistake. The main takeaway is that with care, practice, and grace, we can live into our baptismal vows of loving one another well and respecting everyone’s dignity.

Thanks for continuing this tradition of welcome at Resurrection, and for exploring new ways to do it!

Love,

Liz+

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