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Today I came out to a whole crowd of people on Google Meet --my NEST team, with the other teachers of English Learners, which is honestly such an incredible progressive and liberal team anyways, and I love them.
But I said, to sixteen faces on video, "I'm nonbinary and my pronouns are they/them" and was rewarded with...smiles! and clapping! and at least one person waving their arms in the air in excitement! I didn't cry, and I didn't even have to hide for very long but *wow* did I have the shakes after and _wow_ is it gratifying to have that kind of celebration be the response.
I don't want to do a giant schoolwide version of this thing, I don't want to send an Explanatory Email Updating Every Single Coworker, but in the spaces I work most frequently, it makes sense to do so from a place of truth, and it is phenomenal to have every reaction returned to be one of love and joy. (was it every reaction returned? I don't know, I can't look at sixteen screens at once, but every person who made a comment in textchat or said something aloud did so in love and support, so if I had any negative reactions, they knew to shut their fucking mouths about it.)
I have one more big public video chat come-out to do (Thursday, the math department, you know, the group that hired me) and one more really important email (principal, assistant principals, guidance counselors) and from there it can all boil down to case-by-case and pronouns in my signature and the endless series of little steps outside the closet, because "well you don't look"
I'm super lucky to be in the school district I'm in and to know the people I know. It is the dream job, every inch of the way.
I love y'all and hope you're doing well. I finally caught up with replying to comments from the last twenty entries of mine or so, which I hope means the next step is figuring out whatever mental block is keeping me from reading. I miss knowing what's up in people's lives.
~Sor
MOOP!
But I said, to sixteen faces on video, "I'm nonbinary and my pronouns are they/them" and was rewarded with...smiles! and clapping! and at least one person waving their arms in the air in excitement! I didn't cry, and I didn't even have to hide for very long but *wow* did I have the shakes after and _wow_ is it gratifying to have that kind of celebration be the response.
I don't want to do a giant schoolwide version of this thing, I don't want to send an Explanatory Email Updating Every Single Coworker, but in the spaces I work most frequently, it makes sense to do so from a place of truth, and it is phenomenal to have every reaction returned to be one of love and joy. (was it every reaction returned? I don't know, I can't look at sixteen screens at once, but every person who made a comment in textchat or said something aloud did so in love and support, so if I had any negative reactions, they knew to shut their fucking mouths about it.)
I have one more big public video chat come-out to do (Thursday, the math department, you know, the group that hired me) and one more really important email (principal, assistant principals, guidance counselors) and from there it can all boil down to case-by-case and pronouns in my signature and the endless series of little steps outside the closet, because "well you don't look"
I'm super lucky to be in the school district I'm in and to know the people I know. It is the dream job, every inch of the way.
I love y'all and hope you're doing well. I finally caught up with replying to comments from the last twenty entries of mine or so, which I hope means the next step is figuring out whatever mental block is keeping me from reading. I miss knowing what's up in people's lives.
~Sor
MOOP!