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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 6 months agoi’ve been on a teen fiction/dystopian kick lately. just finished Maria V. Snyder’s second sci-fi book, “Outside In” (first book is titled “Inside Out”), action/adventure/social commentary; recently read “Divergent” by Veronica Roth – strong female protagonist, divided humanity, dystopian Chicago; Carrie Ryan’s third zombie book “The Dark and…[Read more]
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Underage Straddlers (in lieu of an inevitably more creative name) 12 years, 6 months ago
Hello you wonderful people! I’m 16, so I’m technically no longer underage in my UK motherland, but I still feel like I belong here.
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Hello! I’m 17 so I only have less than a year til I’m no longer welcome x3
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 6 months agoI have Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk on my computer desk at the moment. I’m still finding it depressing though that I have no lesbian novels to read.
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The Great Library of Autostraddle 12 years, 6 months agoJust finished the Street Philosopher by Matthew Plampin. It’s a historical novel about the Crimean War (between the British, French, Turks and Russians in the 1850s) and it’s absolutely brilliant. It also has a queer element to it, one of the characters is gay-or a ‘sodomite’ as they were called. Gives a vivid description of the persecution faced…[Read more]
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So how about that brainstorming for gay-straight alliance activities? I just started my school’s, and we need stuff to DO.
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I’ve been wanting to start one at my school, but I don’t know how
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try talking to your principal and/or assistant principals about it. i don’t know how it works for other schools, but we have a REALLY active student club life over here, so it often boils down to simply filling out a few forms and finding a teacher to be the club’s advisor. oftentimes, i find it helpful to simply track down the biggest names and…[Read more]
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our GSA does a lot of activites re: social activism, so perhaps i can help you out here! we’re actually visiting all of our health classes this month to talk about what it’s like to be young and queer, gay bullying, etc. etc. we visited all the social studies classes for the day of silence as well. i also highly recommend looking into LGBTQ…[Read more]
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Those all sound like really good ideas that I’ll have to keep in mind for next year! We made ours this year and were just focusing on establishing its presence first before doing community outreach stuff next year.
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in that case, i recommend school fundraisers. if you can get permission, try holding a series of miniature fundraisers- from selling baked goods to donation boxes (to the LGBTQ charity of your choice, most likely), or even do something bigger- paint a mural in your school, have an assembly to raise awareness of some GSA-related cause, so on. we…[Read more]
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We had a club day, too! And a surprisingly large amount of people signed up, but the activity dwindled after the first month or two and I’m pretty sure a good 50% never showed up at all, partially out of fear, I think. Clubs at my school are allowed a maximum of three fundraisers a year, I think. One advantage we have over other clubs is that we…[Read more]
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This year, we did a fundraiser for AIDS Walk, Day of Silence, Night of Noise, No Name Calling Week, sold LGBT related tshirts and had “movie nights for human rights”. We’d show two movies at school that were generally related to human rights and people would donate to the club. We’ve also done things for LGBT history month and spread awareness…[Read more]
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