Student Leadership

How to start and run a GSA, advocate for policy change as a student, and more.

 Recorded Sessions

Know Your Rights Trivia: LGBTQIAP2+ Students’ Rights in Schools
Education Advocacy, Queer Life, Student Leadership Oyo D. Unicorn Education Advocacy, Queer Life, Student Leadership Oyo D. Unicorn

Know Your Rights Trivia: LGBTQIAP2+ Students’ Rights in Schools

Join us to play virtual trivia and learn about LGBTQIAP2+ students’ rights in schools. This interactive program seeks to inform young people, families, and advocates on the current state of students’ rights in Texas and across the country, including providing updates from the ACLU of Texas on recent court cases and how students, parents, educators, and allies can help make schools more inclusive and affirming.

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Our Existence is Resistance: It’s Our Time & We Are Claiming Our Space!
Queer Life, Student Leadership Oyo D. Unicorn Queer Life, Student Leadership Oyo D. Unicorn

Our Existence is Resistance: It’s Our Time & We Are Claiming Our Space!

As an AfroQueer non-binary student leader and social entrepreneur in the City of Austin I have experienced racism, homophobia and discrimination. During the presentation I will be discussing my experiences as a Queer non-binary person of color and emphasizing how my existence is resistance. This entails discussing the importance of intersectionality, equity and inclusion and the use of social media to dismantle systems that perpetuate Eurocentric and heteronormative conditioning and ideals.

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