Queering weddings and gender expression feat. Tonya
📺 Watch the recording for PFLAG Los Angeles Presents: Trans and Nonbinary Joy ✨
☎️ Call the new QTP Loveline to get various LGBTQ+ affirmations and encouragement
This week, Tonya (she/they) shares how questioning their gender 3-5 years ago has taken them on a journey, including navigating decisions about pronouns, make-up, hair length, and clothing. In this episode, you will learn 1. Why they hired a wedding planner who has experience with queer weddings, among other intentional decisions they've been working through 2. What a previous workplace did that was a positive change for the LGBTQ+ community at large 3. How, surprisingly, a trip to a coffee shop in a small town in Texas recently made them feel seen
💻 Sources and resources:
- Microsoft Teams Pronouns | YouTube video showing how to enable it
- Reel one and two | Instagram account @butchboudoirproject showing how to add pronouns for iOS17
Host Charlie Ocean, MSW (they/them), has a background in LGBTQ+ training, community organizing, and technology. Guest episodes feature at least one allyship tip, including tailored questions based on the guests' unique intersecting identities. You can follow Charlie on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Substack.
Creators and Guests
Host
Charlie Ocean, MSW
Pronouns: they/them. Neuroqueer LGBTQ+ speaker, trainer, consultant, podcaster, writer...
Guest
Tonya
"I love queer because there’s room for me to discover new things about myself. It’s a blanket term, and I currently identify as bisexual also, but it feels like maybe that will change someday. And it just feels better even sometimes to just use the term queer and not even include nonbinary because, you know, I just started exploring my gender in the last probably 3 to 5 years. And who knows how things will change with that, too? Nonbinary, for me, is- it’s an internal alignment."
