{"id":2568,"date":"2020-12-16T12:13:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T17:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2023-12-12T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T21:38:08","slug":"share-your-pronouns-personal-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/share-your-pronouns-personal-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Share Your Pronouns: A Personal Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><button id=\"listenButton1\" class=\"responsivevoice-button\" type=\"button\" value=\"Play\" title=\"ResponsiveVoice Tap to Start\/Stop Speech\"><span>&#128266; Listen to this article<\/span><\/button>\n        <script>\n            listenButton1.onclick = function(){\n                if(responsiveVoice.isPlaying()){\n                    responsiveVoice.cancel();\n                }else{\n                    responsiveVoice.speak(\"About a year and a half ago, I noticed one of my friends and colleagues included the pronouns \u201cshe\/her\u201d in her email signature. I greatly admire and respect this woman, but my immediate reaction was that she was trying to show how \u201cwoke\u201d she was\u2014almost that she was trying to make herself look better than everyone else. From my perspective, it was fine that she listed her pronouns, but it just didn\u2019t feel like it was important for me personally to announce my pronouns in my email signature. I didn\u2019t want it to be assumed that I was \u201cwoke\u201d or \u201cshowy\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Fast forward to a few months ago when I started working with The Diversity Movement and received the organization\u2019s standard email signature template that included pronouns. It gave me pause at first. Did I really have to list my pronouns? I, of course, was not required to, but I decided that being a representative of The Diversity Movement, I should do it. After all, The Diversity Movement\u2019s mission is to be catalysts for transformation. We ought to lead the way for acceptance of diversity and inclusion. I added my pronouns to my email signature for The Diversity Movement email address (though not to my LinkedIn, Zoom, or my other email addresses). However, I was asked by many clients and partners about the pronouns in my email signature. These questions forced me to revisit my own past and reflect on why sharing pronouns is so important. I am hopeful that my reflection vignettes will help you reflect and potentially shift your perspective as well.\u00a0 My name, Jamie, is a gender-neutral name. I never liked it when I was growing up. People always assumed that \u201cJamie\u201d was a boy\u2019s name and I hated that assumption. I had many conversations with my parents about this. Why was I, their youngest of four children, the only one that had a gender-neutral name? Why didn\u2019t they name me \u201cMoriah\u201d, their second-choice name? Why couldn\u2019t I just use my middle name, \u201cRose\u201d, which was my maternal grandmother\u2019s name? I pleaded with them to let me change my name or go by something else.\u00a0 By high school and college, I had gotten over my name issues, and I actually started embracing my name. I had met other girls and women who were named \u201cJamie\u201d. Seeing other \u201cJamies\/Jaymes\/Jaimes\u201d made me feel more comfortable that \u201cJamie\u201d wasn\u2019t just a boy\u2019s name. I also came to celebrate the meaning of my name: \u201cThe one who supplants or comes after\u201d. I was born 11 months to the day of my maternal grandmother\u2019s death. My name \u201cJamie Rose\u201d means that I am the one that comes after \u201cRose\u201d, which is a special tie to a grandmother I know only through the stories my family tells about her.\u00a0 During my junior year of college, I studied abroad in Ireland. I am 99.9% sure that I had to list my gender on the school apartment application. Nevertheless, when I showed up to my apartment, I was greeted by my roommates: four other American men. Meanwhile our upstairs neighbor, Andrea, an Italian man, was sharing his apartment with three women. In both instances, whoever was in charge of the applications, assumed that I was a man and that Andrea was a woman because of our names (Jamie is traditionally only a man\u2019s name in Ireland). Andrea and I talked about switching rooms with one another, but we had both already unpacked and I didn\u2019t mind living with guys (besides the sharing a bathroom part).\u00a0 I graduated from college in 2009, which was not the best year to find a job. I applied to countless jobs. I remember leaving out my middle name and gender on a few online applications just to see if I would get more responses, to see if people assumed I was a man. While I can\u2019t scientifically prove it, it certainly felt like I received a higher response rate when I did this.\u00a0 At one of my jobs early in my career, I worked with a person who I assumed to be a woman. This colleague shared with me and every other employee in the office in individual meetings that they were transgender, and that moving forward should be referred to as \u201che\/him\u201d instead of \u201cshe\/her\u201d. He shared in such an open and honest way and encouraged me and anyone else in the company to ask questions to better understand. He also was never upset when we would accidentally slip up and call him \u201cher\u201d. This was my first experience having a transgender colleague and friend. He created a safe space for me to better understand, and I am deeply grateful.\u00a0 Earlier this year, I was on a Zoom call and was not sure how the other person identified based on their name and appearance. So for the entirety of the call, I just avoided pronouns all together. I did not want to assume and be wrong. Upon reflection, all I needed to do was offer my own pronouns in the introduction and ask everyone on the call to do the same.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Looking back on my own past of having a gender-neutral name, thinking of the story of my friend, and my own experiences of making assumptions and having assumptions made about me, I\u2019m so embarrassed that I didn\u2019t embrace sharing my pronouns sooner in my email signature and social media.\u00a0 However, I recognize that we are all on a learning journey. One of our core values at The Diversity Movement is \u201cinquisitiveness\u201d\u2014we must all commit to ongoing learning, and more importantly, be able to admit when we have been wrong and change. I have learned that sharing pronouns is not being \u201cwoke\u201d or \u201cshowy\u201d. Pronouns eliminate assumptions.\u00a0 By leading with pronouns, you create an environment where everyone can be their authentic self. Just as seeing other \u201cJamies\u201d made me more comfortable with my name and my identity, using pronouns will make others around you more comfortable with sharing their pronouns and gender identity. It sends a signal to members of the LGBTQ+ community that you are an ally. It\u2019s not enough for members of the LGBTQ+ community to share their pronouns or for members of diversity, equity, and inclusion companies like mine to do so\u2014we all have the responsibility to create an environment of inclusivity and safety in our workplace and our communities.\u00a0 I encourage you to use pronouns in your email signature and social media as well as starting meetings with new individuals by introducing yourself and then sharing your pronouns. You may feel uncomfortable at first and may question it (as I did), but I am hopeful that sharing my learning journey and perspective may shift your thoughts on using pronouns. I have shared my perspective with clients over the past few months, and I\u2019ve been so heartened recently by being on client Zoom calls where I now see pronouns at the end of names, including executives. Even Apple CEO Tim Cook recently added pronouns to his Twitter account.\u00a0 Certainly, there is much more to creating an environment of inclusivity or to being an LGBTQ+ ally than just using pronouns. However, this is a significant first step. If you want to learn more about pronouns, MyPronouns.org has great additional resources, and I encourage you to become more inclusive in all of your language by taking our Improving Culture Through Inclusive Language eLearning course.\", \"US English Male\");\n                }\n            };\n        <\/script>\n     <\/br><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About a year and a half ago, I noticed one of my friends and colleagues included the pronouns \u201cshe\/her\u201d in her email signature. I greatly admire and respect this woman, but my immediate reaction was that she was trying to show how \u201cwoke\u201d she was\u2014almost that she was trying to make herself look better than everyone else. From my perspective, it was fine that she listed her pronouns, but it just didn\u2019t feel like it was important for me personally to announce my pronouns in my email signature. I didn\u2019t want it to be <\/span><b><i>assumed<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that I was \u201cwoke\u201d or \u201cshowy\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast forward to a few months ago when I started working with The Diversity Movement and received the organization\u2019s standard email signature template that included pronouns. It gave me pause at first. Did I really have to list my pronouns? I, of course, was not <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">required<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to, but I decided that being a representative of The Diversity Movement, I should do it. After all, The Diversity Movement\u2019s mission is to be catalysts for transformation. We ought to lead the way for acceptance of diversity and inclusion. I added my pronouns to my email signature for The Diversity Movement email address (though not to my LinkedIn, Zoom, or my other email addresses). However, I was asked by many clients and partners about the pronouns in my email signature. These questions forced me to revisit my own past and reflect on why sharing pronouns is so important. I am hopeful that my reflection vignettes will help you reflect and potentially shift your perspective as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/library\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8876 size-large lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-A-1024x341.png\" alt=\"TDM Library: your one-stop-shop for update, expert DEI Resources. Explore the platform with a free trial. Click here to learn more.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-A-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-A-600x200.png 600w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-A-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-A-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-A.png 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/341;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My name, Jamie, is a gender-neutral name. I never liked it when I was growing up. People always <\/span><b><i>assumed<\/i><\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that \u201cJamie\u201d was a boy\u2019s name and I hated that assumption. I had many conversations with my parents about this. Why was I, their youngest of four children, the only one that had a gender-neutral name? Why didn\u2019t they name me \u201cMoriah\u201d, their second-choice name? Why couldn\u2019t I just use my middle name, \u201cRose\u201d, which was my maternal grandmother\u2019s name? I pleaded with them to let me change my name or go by something else.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By high school and college, I had gotten over my name issues, and I actually started embracing my name. I had met other girls and women who were named \u201cJamie\u201d. Seeing other \u201cJamies\/Jaymes\/Jaimes\u201d made me feel more comfortable that \u201cJamie\u201d wasn\u2019t just a boy\u2019s name. I also came to celebrate the meaning of my name: \u201cThe one who supplants or comes after\u201d. I was born 11 months to the day of my maternal grandmother\u2019s death. My name \u201cJamie Rose\u201d means that I am the one that comes after \u201cRose\u201d, which is a special tie to a grandmother I know only through the stories my family tells about her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During my junior year of college, I studied abroad in Ireland. I am 99.9% sure that I had to list my gender on the school apartment application. Nevertheless, when I showed up to my apartment, I was greeted by my roommates: four other American men. Meanwhile our upstairs neighbor, Andrea, an Italian man, was sharing his apartment with three women. In both instances, whoever was in charge of the applications, <\/span><b><i>assumed<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that I was a man and that Andrea was a woman because of our names (Jamie is traditionally only a man\u2019s name in Ireland). Andrea and I talked about switching rooms with one another, but we had both already unpacked and I didn\u2019t mind living with guys (besides the sharing a bathroom part).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I graduated from college in 2009, which was not the best year to find a job. I applied to countless jobs. I remember leaving out my middle name and gender on a few online applications just to see if I would get more responses, to see if people <\/span><b><i>assumed <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was a man. While I can\u2019t scientifically prove it, it certainly felt like I received a higher response rate when I did this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At one of my jobs early in my career, I worked with a person who I <\/span><b><i>assumed<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to be a woman. This colleague shared with me and every other employee in the office in individual meetings that they were transgender, and that moving forward should be referred to as \u201che\/him\u201d instead of \u201cshe\/her\u201d. He shared in such an open and honest way and encouraged me and anyone else in the company to ask questions to better understand. He also was never upset when we would accidentally slip up and call him \u201cher\u201d. This was my first experience having a transgender colleague and friend. He created a safe space for me to better understand, and I am deeply grateful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier this year, I was on a Zoom call and was not sure how the other person identified based on their name and appearance. So for the entirety of the call, I just avoided pronouns all together. I did not want to <\/span><b><i>assume <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and be wrong. Upon reflection, all I needed to do was offer my own pronouns in the introduction and ask everyone on the call to do the same.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looking back on my own past of having a gender-neutral name, thinking of the story of my friend, and my own experiences of making assumptions and having assumptions made about me, I\u2019m so embarrassed that I didn\u2019t embrace sharing my pronouns sooner in my email signature and social media.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, I recognize that we are all on a learning journey. One of our core values at The Diversity Movement is \u201cinquisitiveness\u201d\u2014we must all commit to ongoing learning, and more importantly, be able to admit when we have been wrong and change. I have learned that sharing pronouns is not being \u201cwoke\u201d or \u201cshowy\u201d. Pronouns eliminate <\/span><b><i>assumptions<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By leading with pronouns, you create an environment where everyone can be their authentic self. Just as seeing other \u201cJamies\u201d made me more comfortable with my name and my identity, using pronouns will make others around you more comfortable with sharing their pronouns and gender identity. It sends a signal to members of the LGBTQ+ community that you are an ally. It\u2019s not enough for members of the LGBTQ+ community to share their pronouns or for members of diversity, equity, and inclusion companies like mine to do so\u2014we <\/span><b><i>all<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have the responsibility to create an environment of inclusivity and safety in our workplace and our communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I encourage you to use pronouns in your email signature and social media as well as starting meetings with new individuals by introducing yourself and then sharing your pronouns. You may feel uncomfortable at first and may question it (as I did), but I am hopeful that sharing my learning journey and perspective may shift your thoughts on using pronouns. I have shared my perspective with clients over the past few months, and I\u2019ve been so heartened recently by being on client Zoom calls where I now see pronouns at the end of names, including executives. Even Apple CEO Tim Cook <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2020\/12\/apple-ceo-tim-cook-quietly-added-pronouns-twitter-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recently added pronouns to his Twitter account<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Certainly, there is much more to creating an environment of inclusivity or to being an LGBTQ+ ally than just using pronouns. However, this is a significant first step. If you want to learn more about pronouns, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mypronouns.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MyPronouns.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has great additional resources, and I encourage you to become more inclusive in all of your language by taking our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/improving-culture-through-inclusive-language\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Improving Culture Through Inclusive Language eLearning course<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/library\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8041 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-A-1024x85.png\" alt=\"Display ad for TDM Library. 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