The Educator's Guide to Non-binary French

Obsessed with this novel by Fatima Daas! Let me convince you to read it. :)For a free PDF, sign up for our newsletter!Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Dr. Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What do y'all put in your exit surveys at the end of term? Here's how I think about mine.For a free PDF, sign up for our newsletter!Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Based on Dr. Rachel Mesch's 2020 book, Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteeth-Century France, this episode is a quick meet and greet with three AFAB gender bendy authors from the 1800s! For more details, sign up for our newsletter!Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Some quick and easy ideas to include gender-justice into your protest signs and instagram posts! Our fights are all interconnected ✊For more details, sign up for our newsletter!Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My newest memoir obsession is Tal Madesta's La fin des monstres (2023) - yes, I did cry. The way Madesta talks about masculinity, trans daily life, survival, and love is lyrical, sophisticated, and deeply moving.For more details, sign up for our newsletter!Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does chosen family mean to you? In this episode, we've got an easy lesson plan with poems about, by, and for LGBTQIAP+ folx from the African continent and the diaspora. For more details, sign up for our newsletter!Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Love is in the air!! And it's masculine AND feminine. Listen to trans host, Elsie (they/them), dig around in old online dictionaries.For more information, sign up for our newsletter!Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Want to be polite and greet people, but you're worried about misgendering people? I got you. Here are some tips for greetings in different scenarios.For more resources, sign up for our newsletter!Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected]. Do also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn about the ISDAO's linguistic justice initiatives in West Africa: https://isdao.org/ For more resources, sign up for our newsletter! Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wondering how to make your assessments more gender-inclusive? I got you. Here are a couple easy ideas to start with.For more resources, sign up for our newsletter!Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to trans host Elsie (they/them) rave about three trans/nonbinary/genderqueer artists and their deeply moving and gorgeous music!For direct links, sign up for our newsletter!Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tired of the rule le masculin l'emporte? Me too. Never fear! In this episode you can learn about three alternatives: the accord de proximité, the accord de majorité, and the accord au choix.For a cute little graphic, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Y'all. My beautiful friend leant this book to me, and now I can't stop talking about it.For more beautiful book recs, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get nerdy with me as I walk you through a lesson plan about translation, gendered language, and medieval trans saints!For more activities and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here's a starting mini glossary of ten words about trans experiences in French for y'all! For more activities and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ready to break down the one-gender-per-person rule? Alternation is a great grammatical technique to start with! Join me, your trans host, for a quick and easy grammar lesson. For more activities and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your new favourite graphic novel is here! It's trans, it's beautiful, it's intense, and it's hopeful. :)For more activities and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Want to integrate trans graphic novels into your curriculum? I got you :) For more activities and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to another fun facts episode! Enjoy these beautiful gender affirmations from the 17th and early 18th centuries.For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your first mini gender-inclusive vocab list for family and friends in French!For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, join trans host Elsie (they/iel) for another reading recommendation episode, as they present Dr. Emily Rose's scholarly work Translating Trans Identity: (re)writing undecidable texts and bodies (2021). For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello educators! Welcome back to another Lesson Plan episode! Join trans host Elsie (they/them) as they share a Task-Based-Language-Teaching approach for an advanced French lesson about inclusive language and queer activism on social media!For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nope! Gender-non-conformity is not a new thing. Not even a recent thing. Join trans host Elsie (they/them) as they share some gender affirming moments from nineteenth-century French literature.For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey Fellow Grammar Nerds! :) Welcome back to another grammar episode. Join trans host Elsie (they/them) as they share a easy-to-use non-binary adjective and noun endings in French!For further reading (more endings!) and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, join trans host Elsie (they/iel) for another reading recommendation episode, as they present Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer (2019), and its translation by Anne-Charlotte Husson (2022).For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected] also check out Casey Montgomery's podcast, Migrant Matters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello educators! Welcome back to another Lesson Plan episode. Join trans host Elsie (they/them) as they share a cognitive-code approach to teaching an advanced French lesson about queer language in a 19th century gender bendy short story!For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gender bendy saints?! Absolutely! Join trans host Elsie (they/them) for a deep dive into La Légende Dorée, a medieval collection of the lives of saints, and learn about gender non-conformity in Christianity in the Middle Ages. For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

L'écriture inclusive, (an absurd source of tension with the Académie Française), though originally developed to visibilize feminine grammatical gender, can also be a useful set of language strategies for including gender-non-conforming folx! Join trans host Elsie (they/them) for some practical examples. For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, join trans host Elsie for another reading recommendation episode, as they react to and rave about Letícia Nascimento's Transféminismes (2022).For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide or via email at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello educators! Welcome to another Lesson Plan episode. Join trans host Elsie (they/them) as they share a genre-based approach to teaching beginner French (auto)biographies!For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome back to our Fun Facts episodes! Join trans host Elsie (they/them) as they dive into mysteries of the medieval bestiary in search of queer bodies and stories.For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back to grammar (woo!)! Join trans host Elsie (they/them) for more non-binary pronouns in French, where to find them, and how to use them. For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the first in the reading recommendations series, join trans host Elsie (they/them) for a brief introduction to Dr. Kris Knisely's "The Gender-Just Language Education Project", where to find it, why it's superb, and some favorite excerpts.For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Educators! Looking to make your classroom more trans/non-binary inclusive but not sure where to start? I got you. :) In this episode, join me, trans host Elsie (they/them), for some easy strategies and materials for the first day of classes.For further reading and free resources, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, join trans host Elsie (they/them) as they get on their soapbox about some of the most chaotic statements by the Académie Française and the French government about gender-inclusive language. For further reading and transcripts, sign up for our newsletter.Reach out on instagram @enbyfrenchguide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How does singular "they/them" work in French? In this episode, learn how to use "iel/lea" in French for yourself, your friends, and your community!Enby French Guide Newsletter: https://enbyfrenchguide.substack.com/?r=5qrekf&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklistInstagram: @enbyfrenchguide Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this final episode of the limited series, Queer French Through the Ages, join host Elsie (they/them) as they travel back in time to the Middle Ages to take a look at trans experiences and language. How are gender transformations/miracles written about? What's happening in the grammar? How does gender work in medieval French? Also an interview with a very special guest, Dr. Blake Gutt, a specialist in Trans Medieval Studies, to think about how medieval transness can inform (and also comfort!) people today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is happening with gender and sex in the French Renaissance? How is language used? In this episode, join trans host Elsie (they/them) as they explore some very old poetry, a questionable medical treatise, grammar books, a travel narrative, and a novel. Accrochez-vous ! :) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What does Early Modern France have to say about gender and sex? How can we, today, think about gender-non-conforming lives over 350 years ago?Featuring the works by Early Modern Trans scholars, and a very special guest, Dr. Caitlin Dahl, this episode explores how language navigates queer identities in very old dictionaries, a delightful love story between two young trans people, and a gender-non-conforming memoir. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What do sex and gender mean in 19th-century France? Where can we find gender non-conforming lives in French? How are those identities and experiences expressed in language?Join trans host Elsie, as they shine a light on a lesser-known Balzac short story, and cherish and explore a vibrant intersex memoir, all in the context of queer language. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What are the queer French strategies used by members of the LGBTQIAP+ communities in North and West Africa?Are their understandings of this kind of language the same as ours in the U.S.?In this second episode, join Elsie as they explore studies, linguistic reports, poems, an interview, and a novel - all in queer French! C'est parti :) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Not sure what queer French is? We got you. :) Join PhD student Elsie (they/iel) as they explore what non-binary language strategies look like today in Francophone spaces! With special guest Candice Guerbeau (she/her), and local queer students and educators, this episode explores a series of comic strips by trans creator Sophie Labelle, and a novel by the French linguist Alpheratz, as well as the political and social discourse about queer language in French. Allons-y ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.