Issue Focus: Supporting Queer Youth

  1. Workshop Series: Educational Justice Campaigns

https://gsanetwork.org/resources/workshop-series-educational-justice-campaigns/

“The series will help clubs better understand educational inequity across the country and in their own schools so that they can create an educational justice campaign.”

  1. Policy Spotlight: Curriculum Censorship and Hostile School Climate Bills

https://www.lgbtmap.org/2022-spotlight-school-bills-report

“From 2020 to 2021, at least 30 states considered bills that would censor or restrict inclusive curricula. Bills in at least 26 of those states were focused on banning classroom discussions of race and history, with ten states passing them into law. Bills in at least 14 of those states considered “Don’t Say Gay” and other related legislation that specifically seeks to censor discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity, ban LGBTQ-inclusive books or materials, and more.”

  1. Anti LGBTQ bills don’t just set back equality, they befall democracy 

https://gsanetwork.org/updates/anti-lgbtq-bills-dont-just-set-back-equality-they-befall-democracy/

“In the first four months of 2022 alone, a record-breaking number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced in state legislatures across the United States. Of the 670 bills introduced since 2018, 238 were proposed from January to March of this year. The bills aim to limit every aspect of trans and queer identity and existence, especially when it comes to young trans and queer people and students.”

  1. TRUTH: Nine Point Platform

“We, the National TRUTH Council of 2017-18, draft this document in the radical tradition of creating manifests in order to define our revolution and achieve liberation. The manifesto was inspired by and builds upon the Black Panther Party’s Ten-Point Program, the Young Lord’s 12 Point Program and Platform, and the Third World Gay Revolution. “

  1. Police Free Schools Discussion Guide

https://gsanetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/PFS-Discussion-Guide.pdf

“We offer this collection of activities, resources, and experiences as a three-part discussion guide and educational series around the Trans and Queer experience with policing, with the intent to raise awareness of the specific issues facing the community, and to activate more people to organize and support ending policing in schools.”

  1. Technologies for Liberation: Towards Abolitionist Futures

https://astraeafoundation.org/FundAbolitionTech/

“This report emerged out of the need to better understand the ways in which Queer, Trans, Two-Spirit, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QT2SBIPOC) communities are disproportionately impacted by surveillance and criminalization at all levels—from the state-endorsed to the corporate-led—and to resource these communities to push back. “