Your Learning Resource Playlist for Pride Month and Beyond

This month has been a momentous one for the LGBTQ+ community. In a watershed decision, the Supreme Court ruled that an existing federal law forbids job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. This victory is encouraging, but there’s still work to be done in the LGBTQ+ community’s fight for equality.

In a post earlier this month, we identified some small yet impactful ways employers can acknowledge and overcome existing issues like microaggressions, misuse of gender identity terms and creating inclusive environments for trans employees.

As your organization works to have more open conversations around these topics, better support queer employees and otherwise empower your workforce, consider consulting our playlist of materials for a variety of different circumstances, available via Cornerstone Cares, a free website of timely online learning content, and TED.

In order to effectively enact change and inspire action in the workplace, it’s important to first identify existing biases. By educating employees on what bias-driven behaviors look like, companies can help staff learn to avoid them—and then teach others to do the same.

To learn how to pinpoint bias, listen to:

How Unconscious Bias Affects Your Work, Whether You Know It or Not

What Unconscious Bias Looks Like at Work

The Power of Uncovering Your Unconscious Bias

Then, to develop strategies to stop instances of bias before they happen, listen to:

Know When You’re Acting Biased

Slow Down Your Thinking to Avoid Unconscious Bias

Interrupt Your Bias in the Moment

And finally, to get better at discussing bias in the workplace and begin using these conversations to drive change, explore:

How to Talk About Bias

Build Structures to Combat Bias

These courses offer small but impactful steps that managers and workers can take to make their workplace a safer and more inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ (and all other) employees.

For understanding the state of LGBTQ+ conversations around the world and the history of the gay rights movement, listen to:

This is What LGBT Life is Like Around the World: Jenni Chang and Lisa Dazols

This TED Talk provides a snapshot of what the LGBTQ+ community deals with globally, in 15 countries across Africa, Asia and South America. Acknowledging that their experience in San Francisco is not the same as what individuals face around the world, Jenni Chang and Lisa Dazols share stories of resilience and courage.

Too often, transgender employees are left out of conversations about workplace equality. For advice on effectively communicating with this marginalized community, listen to:

How to Talk (and Listen) to Transgender People: Jackson Bird

This honest and thoughtful TED Talk offers recommendations for having respectful, meaningful discussions that prioritize listening and empathizing with their unique experiences. Jackson Bird also clears up misconceptions about pronouns, transitioning, bathrooms and other elements of transgender life.

Ready to learn more? To educate yourself on appropriate terminology within the LGBTQ+ community, navigate the challenges of LGBTQ+ inclusion efforts, recognize a microaggression against an LGBTQ+ colleague and other resources, subscribe to Cornerstone Content Anytime.