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Recap: Deep Space Gender Equity Sessions 2018

28/10/2019

 
Inspired by the conversations about gender equity in the London and UK Ultimate community, Deep Space ran two gender-equity focused Mixed skills sessions in December 2018 and January 2019.​ We wanted to bring some of the ideas and discussions from the classroom to the pitch, and actively test out what it might look like to train Mixed in a gender equitable way.

We’re sharing what we did and what we learned - we’d love for you to give us your feedback or thoughts, use any of this with your own teams or communities, or build on this for your own work. 

In this session we focused on issues that affect women in Mixed Ultimate. When we say ‘women’, we mean anyone who identifies as a woman, including trans women, and when we say ‘man’, we mean anyone who identifies as a man, including trans men. We want to acknowledge that we don't think we made enough space for non-binary and gender-non-confirming athletes in this session, and are working on educating ourselves and designing better next year.

We welcome feedback and comments on our language, plans and choices. 
You can get in touch with the Deep Space committee at [email protected].
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​What we aimed to do:
 
We agreed on which issues we’d like to work on, taking inspiration from our experiences and conversations, Laura Manescu’s articles on Inside Out Ultimate, and Kathy Franz’s statistics published in Ultiworld. We knew we couldn’t work on all of these in a two-hour session, so we chose a few points to start.
 
We decided to look at:
  • Underrepresentation of women in touches on the disc (as tracked through available statistics)
  • Women feeling looked off, not trusted or not played to their strengths (as represented by our conversations with athletes and articles online)
 
What we did:
 
  • All instructions and explanations were given, whenever possible, by women 
  • We avoided gendered language whenever possible (using people, athletes, or players rather than ‘guys’)
  • We followed Vancouver Ultimate League’s transgender inclusion policy for gender-matching, which allows players to designate which gender they would like to match up against at the start of a session, so we could split people by their gender match rather than gender: https://www.vul.ca/content/transgender-inclusivity
Deep Space Gender Equity Session
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Deep Space Gender Equity Drill
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