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Life’s a struggle when you’re a muggle.

(via hogwartsfansite)

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brightest witch of her age

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When you see people over Tumblr becoming friends and supporting each other because they are in the same fandom and all you have is the fanfiction.

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Wrabel - The Village

This. <3

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My journey has taken much longer, but I stood in those same high heels as Ulysses and took a few steps on that odyssey under the watchful eyes of more experienced friends and spiritual ancestors who came before me who told me that I could do this. 

What I had not expected was the power of these young people, some younger than my children, to teach me lessons about how to be myself and how we all can do this.

I can perhaps take a brief respite from my frequent pangs of despair about the future of our country and especially the future of LGBTQ people of all colors in knowing that these young people are figuring out how to tell our stories.

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Canada makes it illigal to discriminate based on gender identity/expression.

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I believe in the Superhero Sidekick theory of helping, which is to say that if you’re trying to ally yourself with the interests of an oppressed group of which you are not a part, you pull a Robin, not a Batman. You’re not the star of the show, so you don’t direct the mission. You listen, you learn, you assist. You definitely don’t lounge around and wait for the superhero to do all the work and then take all the credit. You also don’t throw up your hands and wail, “WHAT WILL WE EVER DOOOOOOO? THIS IS HOPELESS!” when Batman is right there going, “Um, Robin? There’s like ten things you could do today that would help everybody out. You listening?”

What to Do About Charlottesville (via thehpalliance)

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I would like to say to the men and women of the generations which will come after us: you will look back at us with astonishment. You will wonder at passionate struggles that accomplished so little, at the, to you, obvious paths to attain our ends which we did not take. At the intolerable evils before which it will seem to you we sat down passive. At the great truths staring us in the face which we failed to see, at the great truths we grasped at but could not get our fingers quite 'round. You will marvel at the labour that ended in so little. But what you will never know is how it was thinking of you and for you that we struggled as we did and accomplished the little that we have done. That it was in the thought of your larger realization and fuller life that we have found consolation for the futilities of our own. All I aspire to be and was not, comforts me.

Olive Schreiner, Woman and Labor

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“Lewis’ Law… States that the comments left on anything about feminism will “justify feminism” which is important and necessary, because women are not equal citizens. And I know about egalitarianism; at its best egalitarianism is another word for feminism, but at its worst it is a diversion responding to fears that by giving women more power… men will have less, which is not the case… Egalitarianism is a Men’s Rights project, Feminism is a Human [Rights] project”

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If we can’t write diversity into sci-fi, then what’s the point? You don’t create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.

Jane Espenson (from interview with Advocate.com)

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McInroy, L. B. (2016). Pitfalls, potentials and ethics of online survey research: LGBTQ and other marginalized and hard-to-access youths. Social Work Research. doi: 10.1093/swr/svw005

 Online research methodologies may serve as an important mechanism for population-focused data collection in social work research. Online surveys have become increasingly prevalent in research inquiries with young people and have been acknowledged for their potential in investigating understudied and marginalized populations and subpopulations, permitting increased access to communities that tend to be less visible—and thus often less studied—in offline contexts. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) young people are a socially stigmatized, yet digitally active, youth population whose participation in online surveys has been previously addressed in the literature. Many of the opportunities and challenges of online survey research identified with LGBTQ youths may be highly relevant to other populations of marginalized and hard-to-access young people, who are likely present in significant numbers in the online environment (for example, ethnoracialized youths and low-income youths). In this article, the utility of online survey methods with marginalized young people is discussed, and recommendations for social work research are provided.

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Are you 14 – 29 years old?

Are you Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, GenderQueer, Pansexual, Asexual, Genderfluid and/or any other member of the LGBTTQ+ Community?

Project #Queery is a study of the online activities and health of queer youth and young adults!

Complete the Survey for a chance to win:

One of 2 $250 gift cards to Amazon or iTunes One of 5 iPad Minis One of 100 $25 gift cards to Amazon or iTunes  

Questions? projectqueery@gmail.com

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I Totally Ship It! 

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Craig, S. L., McInroy, L. B., Dentato, M. P., Austin, A., & Messinger, L. (2015). Social work students speak out! The experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer students in social work programs: A study report from the CSWE Council on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression. Toronto, Canada: Authors.

This online North American study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) social work students (n=1,018) in bachelor of social work (BSW; 24%) or master’s of social work (MSW; 76%) programs explored educational experiences in 126 programs in 44 U. S. states and 7 Canadian provinces. Forty-four percent of students reported limited inclusion of LGBTQ content in classes, yet 64% indicated some degree of support for their LGBTQ identities in their programs. One-third reported homophobic experiences in programs, yet many (63%) were aware of “out” LGBTQ faculty. Overall, students reported fairly low levels of self-assessed practice readiness with specific subpopulations (i.e., gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender), with participants reporting the highest (somewhat prepared) self-assessed readiness with gay populations and the lowest (not well-prepared) self-assessed readiness with transgender populations. Participants suggested lower readiness for their non-LGBTQ colleagues. Implications for social work education are discussed.

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This guide is organized by the key areas of need for transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) children and youth.

The guide includes: •  A brief overview of the barriers that TGNC children and youth are currently facing while in Children’s Services’ care; •  A glossary of terms commonly used when discussing TGNC people found in Section 29; •  An overview of Children’s Services’ commitment to providing culturally competent care for TGNC children and youth. Cultural competence refers to an ability to interact and work effectively with people of different cultures, socio-economic experiences, and backgrounds; •  An issue-by-issue guide to providing inclusive care, including: 1. Excerpts of the Children’s Services’ policies related to serving TGNC children and youth, 2. Best practices for service provision that are consistent with these policies, 3. Strategies for implementing these policies with fidelity, and 4. Common missteps to avoid when working with TGNC children and youth.

At the end of this guide, you will find appendixes with resources and referrals that will be of use in supporting the transgender and gender non-conforming children and youth with whom you presently work, or will work with in the future. For further guidance on supporting TGNC youth in Children’s Services’ care, please contact the LGBTQ point person for your site, or the Children’s Services’ Office of LGBTQ Policy and Practice.