Inclusion @ The Marriage Pact

Marriage Pact aims to be inclusive, enriching, and fun for all communities. We’re here to learn from invaluable perspectives that can help us get there. Thoughts? Questions? Email us!

Thank you so much to the thoughtful person who made the suggestion :)

We’ve updated questionnaires to start including ASL as a fluent language option at schools beginning Monday, rolling out to all schools the next Monday. We’ll adjust it to match the local language when the Marriage Pact goes abroad.

We got an email today with a great suggestion: “Fluency in ASL is certainly not a requirement for a good match with a CODA or person who is Deaf, but it can play an important role,” they wrote. Could we add American Sign Language to our fluent language question? Yes!

(Footnote: We give many participants the option to clarify which genders they’d like to match with, and a subset of bi women match with nonbinary, gender-fluid, agender or gender-nonconforming individuals as well! This analysis includes only the broad strokes of the idea.)

So yes, bi women are often more likely to match with another woman (than, say, a man). That’s just how the balance among optimal matches works out :)

Are bi women more likely to match with other bi women (say, instead of men)? Yes! But it might not be for the reason you think. Here’s what we’ve seen 👇

Gen Z is expressing themselves more than any generation before us. We don’t need to see the numbers to know it’s true, but it’s neat Gallup found the same thing: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/…

We’ve seen the same thing since we started at Stanford in 2017—part of why it’s always been so important that anyone could participate. twitter.com/mp_inclusion/s…

More than 100,000 college students have participated in the marriage pact in the last 6 months. Among them, >1 in 6 identify as non-straight in some way.

You might be bisexual but heteroromantic—we’ve got a space for you.

If you indicate you’re bisexual, pansexual, or you write in your sexuality, we’ll ask you which gender(s) you’d like the algorithm to consider for you for the pact.

Can I participate in the Marriage Pact if I’m queer? Yes. 👇