Abby Buckingham's English Language Blog

Language and Gender: 1.      ‘The ‘sexist’ words your children are no longer allowed to use at school’ 2.      ‘Pink v blue - are children born with colour preferences?’ 3.      ‘Campaign to end gender bias in children’s books gains pace’ 4.      Stop calling women ‘girls’. It's either patronising or sexually suggestive 5.      ‘Not Every Brand Loves Emojis. Always ‘Like a Girl’ Says the Female Ones Are Terrible’ 6.      ‘ Beyond ‘he’ and ‘she’: The rise of non-binary pronouns ’ 7.      ‘BBC’s James Naughtie apologises for calling Caitlyn Jenner ‘he’’ 8.      ‘Emma Watson: Gender equality is your issue too’ 9.      ‘Handbags and kitten heels – how not to write about prime ministers’ 10.   ‘Kit Harington: film industry guilty of ‘sexism towards men’’ 11.   ‘Unilever vows to dro...

Style Models: -Consent in the LGBT community and how it is abused (e.g. Kevin Spacey and his coming out to avoid accusation) http://www.gender-focus.com/2015/08/22/consent-queer-community/   - We need to do a better job talking about consent in the LGBT community – By Felix is (a twenty-something trans man from Nanaimo), August 2015, Gender Focus – Talks about the gender roles involved in sexual assault and how, even though there are problems involved with consent and heterosexual people; they will still always have people or bouncers backing them up. http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/11/01/how_calling_kevin_spacey_a_pedophile_hurts_the_gay_community.html - How Calling Kevin Spacey a Paedophile Hurts the Gay Community - By Joseph Fischel, November 2017, Slate – How Spacey coming out to avoid criticism for sexual harassment basically threw the LGBT community under the bus. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/10/30/kevin-spacey-...

http://www.gender-focus.com/2015/08/22/consent-queer-community/  - We need to do a better job talking about consent in the LGBT community

https://humanism.org.uk/2017/06/27/lgbt-inclusive-relationships-and-sex-education-not-yet-the-norm-in-schools-new-report-finds/ LGBT-inclusive relationships and sex education not yet the norm in schools, new report finds - Humanists UK - June 2017