I’m really excited to both discover and share Out on the Shelves’s online resource. I really love how they include the native terms in their description of who they are and who they’re focused on helping:
Out on the Shelves is run by InsideOUT, a national charity with the vision for all rainbow young people in Aotearoa New Zealand to have a sense of belonging and safety in their schools and communities.
…We are here to support young people with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid, asexual, aromantic, takatāpui, whakawahine, tangata ira tane, fa’afafine, mahu, vakasalewalewa, palopa, akava’ine, fakaleiti, fiafifine and fakafifine identities as well as everyone in between, not sure or who prefers a different label or even none at all! We use the words ‘rainbow’, ‘LGBTQIA+’ and ‘minority sexualities, genders and sex characteristics’ to refer to people that might identify in these ways.
There’s also this really lovely under 2 minute video they did:
Check out the books listed on their site – I know I’ll be exploring them! My thanks to Words matter @JennyKayNZ on Twitter for the heads-up about this resource!
The light in me recognizes and acknowledges the light in you,
Lee
Okay got it here is the full detail if you have a way to communicate with them to let them know of this issue. It’s in French (because I am) but it’s quite clear even if you don’t speak the language: “Les sites web justifient leur identité par des certificats. Firefox ne fait pas confiance à ce site, car il utilise un certificat qui n’est pas valide pour wordpress-536064-1712430.cloudwaysapps.com. Le certificat est seulement valide pour les noms suivants : outontheshelves.insideout.org.nz, http://www.outontheshelves.insideout.org.nz
Code d’erreur : SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
Afficher le certificat”
Hi Jean-Christophe, I hit that message as well, but I clicked through and it all worked fine. Maybe there was a technical certificate (or something similiar) that expired and needs to be renewed? thanks for the heads-up!
Thanks for your reply. The message I get states that my personal passwords, credit cards number etc might be stolen by outside parties. It is weird as blogs are supposedly under the WordPress umbrella (if I might say so) and should be protected by WordPress itself and not each and every single blog doing its own security check!
Hello, it seems to be a high-security risk when trying to connect with Out on Shelves. Firefox prevent any connection to the site. Maybe you should let them know. John