domingo, 12 de enero de 2020

GAMIFICATION

     We are deeply convienced that the best way to fight against Lgtbphobia is education, that's why we started this project, and there are a lot of ways to educate. One of them are games. Since we are childs we learn playing, we repeat roles from our daily life, but we also learn new ones. Sometimes the problem appears when games spread, willingly or not, stereotypes or contribute to keep ignoring reality. It happens with gender roles. Girls normally play to take care of babies whereas boys play to save the world. Concerning education on diversity, the problem is that normally games ignore just this: the diversity. We don't use an inclusive language and we don't make visible other models of families or identities. In this project we wanted to brake that tendency, so our students have elaborated inclusive games that contribute to make everybody feel represented.
Here they are some examples that can be used by anyone who whises it.


1. Card game (done by Marina Auilar and Alex Dobra)


Game instructions:
This is a card game with 12 different types of cards, there are 4 cards of each type.
 ° The challenge of this game is to be able to form the group of 4 cards (the quartet) of the same type.
 ° At the beginning 4 cards are dealt to each player and 4 are placed in the center.
 ° When each player has the 4 cards, they have to quickly analyze their cards and those of the center to see if they can exchange any of their cards for others that interest them to form the quartet.
 ° You can take the card that the partner needs if you see it in the center to avoid them winning.  This is why it is important that others do not know what group you are trying to form.
 ° When a player lacks only 1 card to form the quartet, he has to say the loud voice "lgtb", otherwise even if he forms the group he will be disqualified.

 



2. LGTB Trivial. (done by

The aim of this game is to have fun whereas learning about LGTB personalities and rights.
This is the board, which is composed by different topics, each of them in a different color: Geography, Science, History, Art and Culture.
Instructions:
Two teams are formed.
There are five categories of questions and five characters correspondent to each category.
Every team must get three right questions to have the opportunity of obtaining one character of each category. When the three right questions are done, you will go to the Crown Box where is compulsory to answer one more question concerningtha character you want to get. However, if you have three right questions and you want to steal one character from your opponent, you will have to answer correctly one question concerning the character wanted.
The fastest team obteining three characters from three different categories will win.



And here they are the questions:





 3. The Goose Game (done by Francisco Javier García Godoy, Nell Lilian Spencer Drake y Nerea Esperanza Mira)

The goal of this game is being the first to reach the end of the board. However, many difficulties will have to be faced during the way, as much as LGTB people have in their dalily life. Thankfully, there are also many nice surprises on the way, as it also happens everyday. So the point is not to despair, to keep trying and to enjoy our journey.



Instructions
To play you need a small item per person as a marker (like a coin) and a dice.
You can play up to 4 people
Each player starts the game with their item on the Start box. In each turn, they throw the dice to decide how many boxes they have to move. Depending on the box they land on, there's a list of possible things that the players can do:
Rainbow boxes: they move to the next Rainbow flag and throw the dice again.
The Honey Moon boxes (they appear twice on the board, and they represent a Moon made of honey) and the Transition boxes (the ones with the masculine and feminine symbols fusing, that appear twice on the board) have a similar effect, but they have to go back to the first if they land on the second one.
Boxes in which the player loses its turn: stereotypes (1 turn, the one that has a woman and a man talking), gender dysphoria (2 turns, the one that has a red masculine silhouette over a feminine one), bullying (3 turns, the one that has a person covering their face with their hands), jail (4 turns, it's literally a jail)
The Death box: if a player lands on these box, they have to return to the Start box. It is located right before the final Box.
The other boxes are neutral ones. When players land on them, the organizers will tell them something about the LGBT+ community, and sometimes they'll have to answer a question
Neutral boxes: the flags, in order, are: Heterosexual, bigender, aromantic, poliamorous, non-binary gender, asexual, gender fluid, androginous, transexual, demigender, pansexual, lipstick lesbians, bisexual, gay bears, demisexual.
The other boxes, in order, are: Travesti, Drag King, Drag Queen, gender identity, June (Pride Month), "Gay Slang", Pope, third gender, homosexuality, gender expression, to be camp, cisgender, sexual attraction, Stonewall, Begoña passage, Lesbophobia, Babadook, gender ideology.
The objective of the players is to reach the Pride box, located in the center of the board.

viernes, 10 de enero de 2020

LGTB AT FRANCO'S DICTATORSHIP

     On January Belgium, Germany, Romania and Spain are meeting to talk about the legal freamwork concerning Lgtb rights. In order to understand the present we have to study the past and that's what our students have done. Marina Aguilar and Alex Dobbra, students of the second year of baccalaureate,  have elaborated this power point about lgtb people's situation during the dictature


jueves, 9 de enero de 2020

LOGO CONTEST


     Every project needs a logo and here it is the story of ours.
    The first logo was a provisional one, something to identufy us, done by a Spanish boy of 11 years old. It was this one:

     Although it was quite nice, it was just provisional as we wanted to do a contest to get the definitive one. First it would be more democratic and secondly, a contest like this would help to spread the project among our students.
     We started with a national contest. A jury composed by students and teachers chose a winner for each school. Here they are the national winners:
Logo by Germany

Logo by Romania
Logo by Belgium

Logo by Spain
     They all did a great job!!
     Then we started voting on Instagram: Romania against Belgium and Germany against Spain. The winners were voted again and the final winner was..............

                                                BELGIUM!!!!!
      CONGRATULATIONS!!!! 

     This picture was done by a student of 13 years old. It reflects a non-binary/queer perspective on gender.
     We want to thank all the participants, those who have designed a logo and those who have voted. All the logos were absolutely beautiful, they expressed the topic of our project in a natural way. Specially, the younger were the students, the more natural, easy and funny were their designs. It makes you think that maybe we, adults, are the ones who complicate  the others' lives with prejudices and stereotypes.

sábado, 4 de enero de 2020

COMING OUT DAY


     This activity pursues to make visible and promote respect for any kind of sexual orientation in the schools.
     The Coming Out Day is celebrated on October 11 and was first celebrated in Unied States in 1988. The idea came from Robert Eichberg, psychologist and gay activist, and Jean O'Leary founder of the Lesbian Feminist Liberation. The date of October 11 was chosen because it is the anniversary of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. The idea is that homophobia grows in an atmosphere of ignorance and silence. Normalizing is the key to fight against it .

     "Most people think they don't know anyone gay or lesbian, and in fact, everybody does. It is imperative that we come out and let people know who we are and disabuse them of their fears and stereotypes."
                    (Robert Eichberg) 

This project wanted to join the idea, so the four schools involved in it have celebrated this day using Instagram (@lgtb_at_school). Students and teachers recorded a video coming out from a wardrobe with Charlie Winston's song Boxes on our stories and we resposted them. It was our way to support any sexual orientation or gender identity in the schools. We were really surprised how by the success of this activity.  
Here they are some examples of the video they recorded.


 
 
You can watch more on our Instagram (@lgtb_at_school)

    "Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people" 
                                                    (Jean O'Leary)
Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/jean-oleary-quotes
Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/jean-oleary-quotes

viernes, 20 de diciembre de 2019

LGTBPHOBIC COMPLAINTS MAILBOX


     After elaborating our diagnosis test among our students to know the current situation in our school, we decided to provide our community with a new tool to fight against any kind of discrimination. So we bought a tasteless mailbox.

And we turned it into........


    From now on, any studentn or member of our community will have the possibility to denounce anonymously any case of LGTB discrimination, abuse or insults.Every month this mailbox will be opned by a teacher and another member from our school community and they will register all the complaints they find. This method will provide us with an objective tool to check up what's the situation like in our school and if we are improving or not. However, some students  have sugested us to use our LGTB Mailbox in a more effective way. Not only to send complaints but also to propose activities or any other improvement proposals. We have inmediatly accepted, as students should be the main characters of this project and no good idea should be wasted. We really hope to find no complaints and thousand os activities.






miércoles, 27 de noviembre de 2019

LGTB at school meets Charo Alises, Human Rights lawer

     Charo Vázquez Alises is a very important lawer from Málaga who has worked defending civil and LGTB rights.
     She is the author of Homophobic bullying. Action guide (Marbella Town Hall 2017), co-author of Hate crimes. Practical guide for advocacy (Advocacy foundation 2018), LGTB hate crimes guide (Junta de Andalucía 2019).
     She has trained teachers and mainy others experts on bullying and has taken part in a big account of meetings about this topic. Moreover, she has a never-ending curriculum. For example, responsible of Human rights Commission for the Lawers Association in Málaga, coordinator of the legal assistance service for  Hate crimes victims, Amnesty International activist and...well, we coul be talking till tomorrow about her professional career. However, we want to mention here and to thank her extreme generosity for coming to our school just for free.
     She enjoys talking to students, which is very easy to verify, as they kept in silence while she was talking (and she talked a lot) about the law, about the origin of the Pride Day, about some important LGTB prominent personalities. She clarified concepts, ideas and she did it in the most gentle way.
Explaining the Pride Day Origins

Our students were absolutely delighted  with her talk.
Many of them had confessed before to ignore the meaning of some concepts we hear every day, such as intersexual or cis. Now they know their meaning. This is the first step to be tolerant and respectful.







This is what the students answered about the talked whe asked in an anonymous way.






                                                    THANK YOU !!!

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