Sexuality and Gender Diversity, Let’s Talk Brave Spaces with Chris Grant (MBACP)

What does Pride mean to you? Gender and sexuality? Do you understand them as fluid? Are you actively working towards cultivating communities of liberation?

My guest Chris Sheridan (Grant), The Queer Therapist, is a non-binary trans Psychotherapist; Sex and Relationship Therapist; and Diversity Equality, and Inclusion Consultant. They beautifully share their wisdom around gender, sexuality and relationship diversity with us in this episode. 

You may find this interview an important resource in your own journey of navigating shame and stigma to acceptance. It is also a brilliant resource for those who want to show up as allies.

What’s covered in this episode:

• Introduction to Chris and their journey navigating the mental exhaustion and emotional labour of their workplace as a trans person – even with all the skills they had as a trained therapist!
• Pride as not just a time of celebration, but as a time of reflection and consideration how we want to move forward in the year ahead>
• Introduction to the internal experience of gender, not as the external and assigned label of sex
• Consideration of pronoun usage in affirming and sensitive ways
• Consideration of sexuality and relationship identity, and how this can shift over time
• The importance of cultivating community within a culture that can be challenging in ones’ experience of gender, relationship and sexual identity diversity
• The importance of understanding one’s privilege and the commodity of the rainbow flag in one’s efforts to practice allyship
  • What brave spaces are, and how they are important alongside safe spaces

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With thanks to Chris Sheridan for the wisdom they shared. 

 

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