According to Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, an ally is someone “joined with another for a common purpose.”
Being an ally with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) individuals is the process of working to develop individual attitudes, institutions, and culture in which LGBTQIA people feel they are valued. Coming up to International Transgender Day of Visibility, which is an annual event occurring on March 31 dedicated to celebrating transgender people and raising awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people worldwide, the question is often asked “How can I be a better Ally?”
I am joined by Annie Nolan, aka ‘Uncanny Annie’, to discuss her views on Ally-ship and often each of us were standing up for the others community resulting an quite a bit of laughter. She is an Australian mom blogger who rose to fame after a cheeky photo of her twin girls went viral and was viewed more than two million times in two days. She is the founder behind the parenting and lifestyle blog Uncanny Annie.
