Our Racial and Social Justice Pledge: RECAMFT is committed to equity including addressing structural racism and systemic injustice. We endeavor to be inclusive and value individuals from all ethnicities, ages, races, sexual orientations, genders, languages, abilities, religions, citizenship statuses, and socioeconomic backgrounds into our chapter and into treatment.

We strive to advocate, educate, collaborate, and strategize for positive racial and social justice change within our membership and our community.

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Have you finished all the Bite-sized media pieces, the 3 core books, and 2 additional selections of your choosing from the curated list?

Required: 

• Watch/read all Bite-sized Media in the LGBTQQIA2-S section below. 
• Read or listen to The Savvy Ally. 
• Read or listen to A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients.
• Read Gender Queer: A Memoir.
• Plus read / watch any combination of 2 additional media (books, articles, media) from our list below, or attend the live event mentioned above (or watch the recording for CE credit) with one additional book/article/media selection. 
• Our handy tracking form will make attesting a breeze! 

Ready? Click the button to be taken to our Attestation Form to receive your certificate! 

The Attestation Form will require you to answer 2 short questions about each of your titles. It may take you about 30 minutes to complete. The form cannot be saved partway through, so please be ready to complete it in its entirety when you begin. We suggest you write it up on a Word or other document beforehand, and simply cut/paste your answers onto our form.

Note: In the Bite-sized Media section, you are only required to answer the below two questions on just one media - your favorite, or the one from which you learned the most, or if preferred, you can write about the section as a whole. 

These are the questions:

• What was the most important take-away for you from this book/movie/media selection?
• How will the information you read/watched impact you and your clients in your therapy practice?

Lesbian

Teen Vogue:

What is pansexuality?

Gender Expansive, Non-Binary

Teen Vogue: Twelve things people get wrong about being non-binary.

Pronouns Matter: pronouns.org

Say: "My pronouns are --. What are your pronouns?"

Don't say: "What are your preferred pronouns?"

Teen Vogue: What is non-binary gender? 

Very Well Mind: What it means to be Aromantic

MBG Relationships: 8 Signs You Might Be Aromantic and What That Means

Recently, the New York Times named Sonoma County non-binary author Maia Kobabe's new book, Gender Queer: A Memoir, as "the most banned book in the country" and Maia wrote a Washington Post op-ed asking that books which help queer kids not be banned, but made available in libraries as a lifeline to kids who might not have access to this information. 

Find it at Copperfield's books here. 

ACE What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society and the Meaning of Sex

by Angela Chen

ACE a person with little to no sexual arousal or desire...  

To honor the focus of our Justice Project in 2023, RECAMFT had a new logo adaptation commissioned by non-binary digital artist, Sol Meade (SolMeade@gmail.com). 

The Ethical Slut

by J. Hardy & D. Easton

This book has served as a key book on non-monogamy for 20 years. The latest version has been nuanced for millennials.  

Polysecure

by Jessica Fern

Author examines attachment theory in polyamorous relationships (consensual non-monogamy).    

Transgender, Gender Expansive, Non-Binary

Exploring My Identity(ies) by Van Ethan Levy, LMFT & LPCC (they/elle)  This interactive book is created to assist you in learning more about yourself, and unlearning the harmful messages you have received and continue to receive. This book will help you deconstruct gender, understand terms like: transphobia, internalized transphobia, microaggression, privilege, macroaggression, cisgender, trans, non binary, masculinity, femininity, and so much more. This book is designed for all people, no matter what identities a person holds. 

"Do Something: Trans & Non Binary Identities" (2021) by Van Ethan Levy, LMFT & LPCC (they/elle) trailer

This moving documentary gives a snapshot of the lives of 8 non binary and/or trans folx, as they share what pains them and what lifts them.

[To access the film, the filmmakers ask that you donate to their Go Fund Me: https://GoFund.Me/397dd283. Then, email DoSomethingDocumentary@gmail.com and they will send you a link.]

"Moonlight" (2016) is available through a variety of sources for a small fee. Those include

• Amazon
• HBO Max
• Hoopla
• Hulu
• Netflix
• Showtime

You can also watch "Moonlight" for free with your Sonoma County Library card through Kanopy. 

Happy Together (1997)

Won Best Director 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Two Hong Kong men emigrate to Buenos Aires, when Hong Kong returning to Chinese rule puts LGBT lives in danger.

Pariah (2011)

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, multiple awards. Film is a coming of age of a 17 year old lesbian in Brooklyn, NY. 

Wildhood (2022)

Two brothers flee their abusive father, in search of a mother they were told was dead, but recently learned might be alive. They are helped by native people including a Two-Spirit Mi'kmaq.  

Viva (2015)

A Cuban father-son story of a teen who wants to perform drag, and his father, who is newly released from prison. Great music featuring Havana's "transformistas". 

Before Night Falls (2000)

An autobiographical look at the life of gay Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas. Highlights the discrimination, and cruel homophobia of Cuba under Castro, and America, under Reagan.

Carol (2015)

Film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. Numerous awards. BBC "...one of the greatest films of the 21st century." Story of the relationship between a young photographer and an older woman. 

Tangerine (2015)

Director Sean Baker filmed the entire movie on iPhones, and found some of the cast on site at a donut shop in Santa Monica. Features two trans sex workers; one learns her pimp has cheated on her. 

The Watermelon Woman (1997)

This was the first feature film directed by a black lesbian. Story of a 25 yo black filmmaker who is obsessed with 1930s "mammy" actors who are nameless. 

Fire Island (2022)

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is the inspiration for this story of a group of gay friends who embark on vacation to Fire Island. Explores both classism and romance.

Paris is Burning (1991)

Many awards, snubbed by the Oscars. Chosen for preservation in the US  Nat'l Film Registry by Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Two Spirits (2009)

Documentary covers the short life of Fred Martinez, a Navaho youth, who identified as a two-spirit or "nadleeh".  Long rich history of two spirits, including marriage equality for centuries. 

Disclosure (2020) Documentary that investigates the ways that Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

Every Body (2023) Documentary that focuses on three intersex individuals who overcame shame, secrecy and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods, choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly are.

Mama Bears (2023) Follows a group of fundamentalist Christian mothers who decide to be fierce allies for their LGBTQ children and start the campaign for “Free Mom Hugs”