{"id":5397,"date":"2019-10-27T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T20:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2019-10-27T20:47:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T20:47:11","slug":"brave-zone-at-lvc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2019\/10\/27\/brave-zone-at-lvc\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave Zone at LVC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p>Autumn Light \u201920, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>LVC offers many on-campus groups and organizations that promote inclusivity and understanding for marginalized groups, one of which is Brave Zone.<\/p>\n<p>Brave Zone is a campus organization under LVC\u2019s Office of Intercultural Affairs and Inclusive Programming. Its members and trainees are dedicated to supporting the LGBTQ+ community by standing up for them as well as combating bias and discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrave Zone is an educational, inquisitive, and supportive space,\u201d Dr. Holly Wendt, assistant professor of English, director of Creative Writing, co-chair of the Committee for Inclusive and Intercultural Learning and Brave Zone training co-facilitator, said. \u201cThe trainings are opportunities for attendees to learn more about the LGBT+ community, to learn how to be an ally and an advocate, and to help find and strengthen a sense of community and inclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The education that Brave Zone training provides often discusses issues and perspectives that otherwise might be silenced or hard to find. Brave Zone is dedicated to building a campus-wide community that is inclusive to and safe for all gender identities, gender expressions, sexual orientations, sexual attractions and romantic attractions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that everyone will take away that it\u2019s okay to ask questions and to keep learning,\u201d Wendt said. \u201cBoth allies and members of the LGBT+ community have opportunities to enlarge their understanding, especially regarding the intersections of LGBT+ identities and other identities. Everyone\u2019s experience is different, so listening is a really good skill to practice. Use your privilege to make space for other voices at the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students and faculty who wish to learn more about Brave Zone should contact Wendt at wendt.lvc.edu or Tyler Cox, Associate Director of Intercultural Affairs and Inclusive Programming, at tcox@lvc.edu. The next Brave Zone training session for LVC students will be on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Autumn Light \u201920, Staff Writer LVC offers many on-campus groups and organizations that promote inclusivity and understanding for marginalized groups, one of which is Brave Zone. Brave Zone is a campus organization under LVC\u2019s Office <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2019\/10\/27\/brave-zone-at-lvc\/\" title=\"Brave Zone at LVC\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}