S4TJ Committee on
Supporting Trans, Non-binary, and Intersex Scholars

Mentorship Committee

Tasks

1. Mentoring program – run program; provide mentors with best practices for supporting trans, non-binary, and intersex graduate students and junior faculty. Work with other sociology mentoring programs to better include and support trans, non-binary, and intersex scholars.


2. Organize an informal networking/mentoring time/session at ASA with a room from ASA or from SWS or another organization.

Best Practices Committee

Tasks

1. Create 1-page guides on best practices on how to teach trans students in collaboration with Syllabus committee


2. Create other 1-page guides on best practices related to S4TJ areas of interest


3. Collaborate Syllabus committee + conference subcommittee to create webinar on teaching trans studies


4. Collaborate with Survey and Best Practices Subcommittees and ASA in order to improve conference procedures.

Conferences Committee

Tasks

1. Write a best practices statement for conferences


2. Figure out what other organizations and conferences in sociology do already


3. Work with people who go to other conferences to organize informal (or formal!) meet-ups, mentoring sessions, etc (work with other committees as needed here).


4. Propose S4TJ sponsored sessions at ASA.


5. Mission: Make sociology conferences safe and empowering for trans, non-binary, and intersex people. This includes pushing sociology organizations to list gender pronouns on conference badges, ensuring that gender-inclusive, accessible restrooms are available at conferences, creating safe spaces for trans, non-binary, and intersex people, and organizing social gatherings for trans, non-binary, and intersex scholars at sociology conferences.