Marking Gender in Spanish: A Guide for Language Learners
In this ongoing project I am creating an Open Educational Resource (OER) for language learners who want to make independent decisions on the politics over their bodies and identities and determine how they would like to be called while learning Spanish. The guide allows the learner to gain a basic understanding of Spanish grammar and its relationship to gender. It intends to be not only a resource to decide how they would like to be named but also to understand the complexity of the subject, in relation to Spanish-speaking societies. The material can also serve teachers and professors as a resource to help navigate this challenging topic.
Acknowledgements
- Indisciplininadxs: Feminist Linguistics, for being home to many of the conversations on gender and language that nurture this book.
- Open Knowledge Fellowship by the Mina Res Library for the training in how to locate Open Resources, and for the first portion of this project.
- Elvis Bakaitis for their support in planning this material and thinking together about the content.
- Focused Inquiry Group on Disciplinary Open Educational Resources Collections Focus by the Teaching and Learning Center, for the collective space to work on this pedagogical project.
- Laurie Hurson for her guidance in thinking further about the pedagogical aspects of this text.
- Maria Amelia Viteri for the conversations she made possible in Linguistic/Epistemic Justice: Untranslatable Colonial Wounds, a seminar that was part of the Lavender Languages Institute 2023.
- CUNY Open Publishing Collective, for adopting this project.