Gender & Sexualities Committee

To promote impactful research, policy, and practice around the intersections of literacy and gender, and sexuality.
To forward an agenda of justice, equity, equality, and diversity centered around gender and sexualities and their intersections with other identities.
To promoting and encouraging literacy research that highlights perspectives around gender and sexualities, especially as those identities intersect with race, class, language, nationality, religion, age, ability, or culture.
To identifying and advocating for programmatic opportunities that work to rectify power imbalances with particular attention to intersectional identities and structural forces.
To collaborating with Ethnicity, Race, and Multilingualism (ERM) to create organizational opportunities that foreground literacy research and practice from intersectional perspectives and backgrounds.
To encouraging interaction and engagement with organizations and scholars involved in outreach, advocacy, or research that foregrounds gender inequities or LGBTQ populations in various local, national, and global contexts.