Offering resources that help people strengthen personal and social resilience and peace around sexual and gender diversity.
Offering resources that help people strengthen personal and social resilience and peace around sexual and gender diversity.
A Guide to Sexual and Gender Diversity that Includes Many Viewpoints
The LGBTQIA+ Peacebuilding Book Project includes two guidebooks published by Bloomsbury and 12 personal growth books written by the chapter coauthors. Together, these books share ideas and skills to help people feel more secure in themselves, build stronger connections with others, and work through conflicts about sexual and gender diversity.
Uniting Diverse Voices
We brought together more than 100 scholars, clinicians, and community leaders with many different views, including political views that differ. Together, we worked to co-create safety, find areas of agreement, reduce prejudice through dialogue, and support LGBTQIA+ health and human development for a wide range of readers.
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
Our book project brings together many viewpoints instead of promoting one side or repeating bias. The goal is to reduce false information and find common ground so people can learn from each other and solve problems together.
By finding areas of agreement, we hope to offer ideas and skills that a wide range of readers can use without dismissing or invalidating people’s lived experiences.
Co-Creating Safety and Working Together
Resolving conflicts about sexual and gender diversity in our lives, families, and communities takes a shared commitment to create safety, work together, and combine what we know. We focus on solutions that help everyone move forward and that honor our shared humanity and experiences.
Representing Connection and Complexity
Inspired by Venn diagrams and nature, our logo shows both the shared and unique parts of who we are, our relationships, and our communities. It reflects how people can be connected while still being different, and how complexity and belonging can exist together.
The overlapping shapes represent connection and integration. This design highlights our commitment to understanding diverse identities and working together to support wellbeing.
Bridging Divides
This book project is a social experiment of hope to bridge gaps and address long standing and ongoing division, confusion, and harm related to sexual and gender diversity. Our goal is to help readers strengthen their sense of identity and learn practical skills. We also aim to reduce pressure to take sides, which often slows understanding and progress.
Growth and Understanding
We hope our guidebooks and personal growth books help you and others recognize your own worth and the worth of those around you.
During times of political and family division, our resources encourage respectful adversarial collaboration. This means people with different views work together to better understand conflict, resolve it, and support positive change and lasting peace.
For more information about sexual and gender diversity and building peace, or to connect with us, please reach out.
