{"id":122,"date":"2014-12-01T16:53:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T23:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/?p=122"},"modified":"2014-12-01T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T23:54:23","slug":"122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/2014\/12\/01\/122\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/files\/2014\/12\/PosSpace-web-badge-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/files\/2014\/12\/PosSpace-web-badge-2.jpg\" alt=\"PosSpace-web-badge-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very happy to become a part of\u00a0the UBC Positive Space campaign as one of the many\u00a0resource persons on the Point Grey campus. Here is a description of the campaign&#8217;s objectives as copied from the Equity and Inclusion\u00a0Office website:<\/p>\n<p>Objectives of the Positive Space Campaign<\/p>\n<p>To challenge patterns of silence around LGBQTTI issues and persons to help create a more visibly welcoming, safer and non-exclusionary campus community for all.<br \/>\nTo affirm and show commitment for the idea that UBC is enriched and enlivened by the diversity of its community, including LGBQTTI persons.<br \/>\nTo increase the visibility of, and contribute to the development of, positive, supportive people and spaces for LGBQTTI students, staff and faculty at UBC.<br \/>\nTo increase awareness, affirmation and education around sexual and gender identity and diversity issues.<br \/>\nTo provide a community of resource persons who are knowledgeable about gender identity and sexual orientation issues and resources and willing to support their lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgender and two-spirited colleagues, classmates and community members.<br \/>\nTo provide on-going educational sessions and professional development training for the campus community on issues related to sexual and gender diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very happy to become a part of\u00a0the UBC Positive Space campaign as one of the many\u00a0resource persons on the Point Grey campus. Here is a description of the campaign&#8217;s objectives as copied from the Equity and Inclusion\u00a0Office website: Objectives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/2014\/12\/01\/122\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jpaltin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}