Offering resources that help people build personal and social resilience and peace around sexual and gender diversity.
Offering resources that help people build personal and social resilience and peace around sexual and gender diversity.
A Multipartisan Guide to Sexual and Gender Diversity
The LGBTQIA+ Peacebuilding Book Project includes two detailed guidebooks published by Rowman & Littlefield and 12 personal growth books published by their chapter coauthors. Together, these books share ideas and skills that help people build personal and social resilience and work through conflicts related to sexual and gender diversity.
Uniting Diverse Voices
We brought together more than 100 researchers, clinicians, and community leaders with a wide range of views, including views that differ politically. Together, we worked to co-create safety, reduce prejudice, and support LGBTQIA+ health and self-development for a wide range of people. We share research-based ideas, skills, and support to help build a more inclusive, caring, and strong world.
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Empowering Ways to Respond to Stress for Sexual and Gender Minorities
Finding Common Ground Across Diverse Viewpoints
Rather than promoting one side over another or repeating bias, our book project brings together many viewpoints to reduce misinformation and find common ground. We share ideas and skills that are broad, inclusive, and based on research, without dismissing or invalidating people’s lived experiences. Our goal is to offer a balanced perspective that respects everyone involved.
Co-Creating Safety and Working Together
Resolving personal, family, and community conflicts around sexual and gender diversity takes a shared commitment to co-create safety, work together, and combine what we know. We focus on win-win strategies and solutions that honor our connections and shared experiences.
Representing Connection and Complexity
Inspired by Venn diagrams and nature, our logo symbolizes both the shared and unique parts of who we are, our relationships, and our communities. It shows how we are connected while still being different, and how complexity and belonging can exist together. This design highlights our commitment to understanding diverse identities and working together to support wellbeing.
Bridging Divides
This book project is a social experiment to bridge gaps and address long-standing and ongoing division, confusion, and harm related to sexual and gender diversity. We aim to support readers by strengthening identity and practical skills, while reducing pressure to take sides, which often slows progress.
Growth and Understanding
We hope our guidebooks and personal growth books help you and others recognize and value your own worth and the worth of those around you.
During these times of political division, we aim for our resources to encourage respectful “adversarial collaboration,” where people with different views work together to understand conflicts, resolve them, and support positive change and lasting peace.
For more information about sexual and gender diversity, or to connect with us, please feel free to reach out.
