[Organizers] Re: Current use of terms

2023-03-10 Thread Dana Dwinell-Yardley via Organizers
Montpelier, VT, uses Larks and Robins. Our website pretty clearly says "gender-free role terms," but I suppose we could be specific about *which* terms we use! Thanks, Dana On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 11:09 AM Jeff Kaufman via Organizers < organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > I've updated

[Organizers] Re: Current use of terms

2023-03-10 Thread Jeff Kaufman via Organizers
I've updated Palo Alto to mark it as gender free. Let me know if you see any other inaccuracies on trycontra.com. I haven't marked any of the "callers choice" dances as gender free: the way the site uses the label is for dances that are consistently gender free. Jeff On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at

[Organizers] Re: Current use of terms

2023-03-10 Thread lsturgen--- via Organizers
The Downtown Amherst contra has gone to all gender free calling but apparently needs to update their site.Liz Sturgen  Sent from AOL on Android On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 7:45 PM, Peter Simonyi via Organizers wrote:There are only 49 dances on Jeff's list, so I went to each website andtook a quick

[Organizers] Re: Current use of terms

2023-03-10 Thread Mary Jean Regoli via Organizers
Good discussion. The Bloomington, IN contra dance meets weekly. Our instructions to callers say: “Role Terms. Callers may choose what role terms to use. Whatever terms you use, please emphasize that these are roles that any dancer is welcome to choose. Try to refrain from using the words