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  • The Savvy Ally

  • A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate
  • By: Jeannie Gainsburg
  • Narrated by: Shaina Summerville
  • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (41 ratings)

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The Savvy Ally

By: Jeannie Gainsburg
Narrated by: Shaina Summerville
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The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy-to-understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock-full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy, including: current and relevant information on identities and LGBTQ+ language; tips for what to say and what not to say when someone comes out to you; LGBTQ+ etiquette and techniques for respectful conversations; common bloopers to avoid; tools for effectively navigating difficult conversations; suggestions for addressing common questions and concerns; actions for creating more LGBTQ+ inclusive spaces; and recommendations for self-care and sustainable allyship.

This book will be useful for teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses, medical technicians, and college professors, as well as parents who want to be supportive of their LGBTQ+ child but don't know how. This is not a book about why to be an ally. This is a book about how to be an ally. The goal of The Savvy Ally is to create more confident, active allies who are effective advocates for change. This informative, entertaining, and supportive guidebook will surely jump-start even the most tentative ally.

©2020 Jeannie Gainsburg (P)2021 Tantor
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Helpful and insightful resource

If you’re seeking a resource to support you in being the best LGBTQIA+ ALLY, this frank, concise, heartwarming resource is for you. Lots of practical tips and points of increased awareness provided.

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Just What I Needed

Perfect for where I am, stepping up to where I wish I had been years ago. I appreciate the way relevant vocabulary is reviewed and discussed. I will be purchasing a hard copy and sharing with others.

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So helpful!

This is exactly the book I needed to help me gain insight and confidence to be the Ally I strive to be.

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AWESOME!!!! A must read/listen for every ALLY.

Tremendous work which is enlightening in ALL the nuances surrounding an ally’s efforts to be as good of an ally as we can. …. The chapters/segments at the end of the book are a wonderfully useful addition.

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Worth your while

This book was really wonderful. Even if you are an ally (or think you are!) it’s chock full of helpful information and insights which make one expand the way they think. This book really should be required reading for anyone who works in schools, in a managerial position, or who aspires to ensure that everyone is treated equally and with dignity.

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