el cuidado es el hogar/ care is home Trans and queer communities, particularly Black and brown communities, have a long history of creating family and caregiving structures outside of traditional systems because of the lack of family, cultural, and societal acceptance and support. When other caregiving systems at best fail and at worse cause further […]
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Transgender Day of Remembrance 2022 Thank you for sharing this moment in time with us. I know these past years have been a lot, not to mention this week, as we celebrated Trans Awareness. TDOR the holiday was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of
GSA Network’s Language change announcement GSA Network is updating its language! While we have used the acronym “LGBTQ+” to encompass our community in the past, we are shifting to “TQ2S+” (transgender, queer, Two-Spirit+) now and as we go forward. “As we grow and expand in our trans and queer work, it’s essential we listen
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GSA Day for Gender Justice 2022 GSA Day for Gender Justice (#GSADay4GJ) is a national day of action for GSA clubs, TQ2S+ youth, and allies to center trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse people and mobilize for their liberation. The National TRUTH Council leads #GSADay4GJ through creative storytelling and media projects.In 2018, the team wrote and published their Nine-Point Platform
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Led by the wisdom and stories of young trans and nonbinary leaders, Gender Justice Leadership Programs offers a community report-back on what we saw, felt, and learned throughout the 2022 Spring Legislative Session. As we witnessed state after state introduce bills that used inaccurate and hurtful narratives to threaten the rights of trans people, it
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Trans and Queer Youth General Assembly- Spirit Sustainability Home-coming. Truth-telling. Spirit-Sustaining. Star-Gayzing. This is how we will build a collective and sustainable approach to organizing. This is how we are Devising Freedom, Queering Liberation. As part of this national strategy, GSA Network’s 2nd Trans and Queer Youth General Assembly on spirit-sustainability is here! Watch incredible
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Please join us for a storytelling workshop on april 13 at 10am PST/ 1pm EST! Click Here to register! GSA Network has launched Devising Freedom, a national strategy that will create a vision for transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary youth to blossom despite the persistent attacks on their bodies and their identities. This national strategy
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION In collaboration with the Brown Boi Project, the GSA Financial Wellness Program, Trans | Trust | Funds (TTF), is an opportunity to empower trans youth to establish a sustainable financial wellness practice. The program offers a financial opportunity for youth to invest in themselves while gathering the tools for financial wellness and personal
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Introduction Metamorphosis is GJLP’s Poetry AntholoZine (an anthology and the components of a Zine combined) meant to encourage reflection and goal setting by examining where trans youth have come from and where they are headed! Through our own metamorphosis, we transform our pasts into a better future. The inspiration for this AntholoZine came from the 2021 GSAN
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For GSA Day 4 Gender Justice, we wanted to release a zine about transformative justice which includes definitions, self-reflection prompts, discussion questions, and resources to learn about our theme of the year. We invite you to check it out and start conversations with yourself and your community! Click here to download the full Transformative Justice
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Introduction Metamorphosis is GJLP’s Poetry AntholoZine meant to encourage both reflection and goal setting by examining where you have come from and where you are headed! Through our own metamorphosis, we transform our pasts into a better future. The inspiration for this AntholoZine comes from the 2021 GSAN Staff Retreat as well as George Ella
This October, Roses Initiative is excited to offer wellness care packages to trans girls and nonbinary fems of color. As we continue to survive a pandemic, national uprising, and continued violence against our people, we know a little can go a long way. That’s why we are focusing our energy on getting wellness packs to
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Welcome to the GSA Day 4 Gender Justice home base! This is where you will find all sorts of information about the history of GSA Day, how to participate in our day of action, resources for your GSA club, and much more!On Friday, November 12, the National Trans Youth Council invites you to join us
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GSA Day 4 Gender Justice 2021 We are excited to share the new art piece created for GSA Day 4 Gender Justice, “Transformative Justice” art by DXTROSE that goes with our theme, We Call for an End to Disposability Politics and a Commitment to Transformative Justice! Welcome to the GSA Day 4 Gender Justice home base!
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My journey with gender has been a wild ride. While I’ve been able to sculpt an intimate relationship with myself and my body, the reality of my lack of access to health care, community, and basic needs was always evident. I first told my mother I was not a boy after my freshman year of
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Welcome to the Trans Wellness Zine created by Trans Youth for Trans Youth! In the Zine you will find Guided Journaling Prompts, Words of Affirmation, Emergency Planning, and an Exclusive Interview with Amayas from Roses and Lakshmi from TRUTH! Download the full Trans Wellness Zine 2021 here! Click here to read the full Trans Wellness
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Led by the wisdom and stories of young trans and nonbinary leaders, Gender Justice Leadership Programs offers a community report-back on what we saw, felt, and learned throughout the 2021 Spring Legislative Session. As we witnessed state after state introduce bills that used inaccurate and hurtful narratives to threaten the rights of trans people, it
As many of us have seen in the news, Nex Benedict, a 16-year-old non-binary and Indigenous member of the Choctaw Nation, died on February 8, 2024 following a physical altercation at school. Nex was targeted because of their gender identity after being forced to comply with Oklahoma state laws about using bathrooms and changing rooms
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Florida is one of 33 states that has introduced and voted on bills that directly target the freedom and agency of trans and nonbinary young people. #NationalTransYouthCouncil alumni Jayy (they/them) shared what it means to call somewhere home, and then to watch it attempt to turn on you. The following dialogue is from a conversation
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Love is beautiful, complicated, fragile, so many words to describe something some people seek and some people don’t. Love is often taught to us through a cisgender heterosexual lens that so many trans and nonbinary folks are often left out. For trans youth, it may be hard to imagine ourselves and love because the messages
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