The SOGIE Name:

The SOGIE acronym is used by the United Nations and was created to honor the fluidity of numerous and ever expanding identities present in what is colloquially referred to as the LGBTQ+ community. In addition to the inclusive nature of this acronym, while the NASW-NYC SOGIE Collective focuses our efforts locally, “SOGIE” also recognizes our position in, and responsibility to, the global SOGIE community. We recognize that the SOGIE acronym, like all attempts to institutionalize language that labels a broad, diverse, and dynamic community, is imperfect and may even be unintentionally exclusionary of some members that we are hoping to engage. Thus we encourage voices of debate to participate in conversations around language, direction, and evolution of the SOGIE Collective. Lastly, in this mission statement and in other materials for the collective, we will use the term SOGIE both as an acronym (as originally intended) but also as a label that distinguishes members of the Collective and the larger Queer, Trans, and Gender-Fluid community.