#youth rights activists

[ihhfhonao3]

I’m a firm believer in the passive and small acts of activism.

You’re actively fighting capitalism by resting and taking a break. You’re actively fighting homophobia by wearing a rainbow pin to signify to others your allyship. You’re actively fighting climate change by air drying your hands after washing them. You’re actively fighting childism by letting a minor talk to you about how they’re doing. You’re actively fighting oppressive systems by simply existing.

There have always been others like you, and there always will be others like you. Your existence is rebellion. As long as you’re alive, conservatives and bigots have lost.

You’re a rebel. You’re a warrior. You’re a fighter. And you don’t even know it.

[queeryouthautonomy]

We're starting a protest!

Visit queeryouthassemble.org to learn how to join us, and send us an ask or email us at march@queeryouthassemble.org with any questions!

Photo credits and alt text available under the cut:

📸 credits, used with permission: 

All art by the incredible @jesseyoungpaulson 

Slide 6: @cpagsa during their walkout, March 2022

Slide 7: @lgbtatorr during their walkout, as QYA Head of Teams @alia.cusolito gives a speech, March 2022

Slide 8: @briggs_padilla from their walkout, March 2022

Slide 9 and 10: @alia.cusolito from Let Trans Athletes Play, August 2022

Alt text:

Slide 1

A digital art piece showing a diverse group of queer youth is overlayed with text reading, “March for Queer & Trans Youth Autonomy, March 31 2023, All 50 States, Uniting as One.” 

Slide 2

The background is a rainbow gradient with  a digital art piece showing three queer youth. The text reads, “It’s time we create one of the largest queer youth marches in history! Uniting every queer and trans young person under the common goals of safety, autonomy, joy.” 

Slide 3

A rainbow gradient with a small digital art piece in the corner of three queer youth. The text reads, “The queer & trans community has been upended by a series of devastating laws, detrimental legislation, and queerphobic attacks designed to make the lives of queer & trans youth as unbearable as possible. Each and every queer & trans youth serving org has  responded in their own ways, prompting walkouts, protests, legislative challenges, organizational statements, and other rebuttals in an attempt to swing the momentum. Now it’s time to unite our communities powerful work and collectively advocate for youth as one!”

Slide 4

A rainbow gradient overlayed with text reading, “This march will center the voices of queer and trans youth.” This is followed by a bulleted list saying the following, “Marches will be held at capitol buildings & in major cities in all 50 states. Queer & trans youth will share their stories, experiences, and demands to the masses.  Everyone from adults to allies to politicians will march in solidarity. State & national orgs will organize these marches, while students will organize walkouts at their schools.”

Slide 5

A rainbow gradient overlayed with text reading, “Queer and trans youth will receive the spotlight to advocate for their safety, their joy, and their autonomy. The tidal wave that these marches will create, combined with the  political & media spotlight on queer & trans youth, will drown the conservative narratives that have dominated the fight until now. In their place, queer & trans youth voices, stories, interviews, testimony, films, books, will all rise to show the lives and share the stories of queer & trans youth. We will be front and center.” 

Slide 6

An image of students from @cpagsa during QYA’s National Queer Youth Walkout is overlayed with text and a list of checkboxes reading, “Youth! If you are an activist, are in your school’s GSA and/or have been impacted anti queer & trans youth speech, legislation, or laws then we invite you to join our queer & trans youth led march planning committees! Visit queeryouthassemble.org for more information.” 

Slide 7

An image of students at Old Rochester Regional’s walkout, with QYA Head of Teams Alia Cusolito giving a speech, overlayed by text which reads, “ Queer & trans youth listening sessions. January 7th, 2023, 4pm EST, January 11th, 2023, 8pm EST, January 15th, 2023, 4pm EST, and January 21st, 2023, 10pm EST. We invite queer & trans youth across the country to join us at our march listening sessions, where we will be brainstorming a list of demands for the march. Once completed, the list will be circulated across the country, and signed by politicians & organizations to pledge their commitment to queer & trans youth. Register by clicking the link in our bio or visiting queeryouthassemble.org. 

Slide 8

An image of students during the walkout in March, overlayed with text and checkboxes reading, “Adults! If you have an LGBTQ+ kid, support queer & trans youth autonomy, and/or want a safe and loving future for your children then we invite you to donate to Queer Youth Assemble! Visit queeryouthassemble.org to donate.”

Slide 9

An image of queer youth attending Queer Youth Assemble’s Let Trans Athletes Play event in August overlayed with text and checkboxes reading, “Orgs! If you support queer and trans youth autonomy, have BIPOC, trans, or disabled leadership, and/or have experience planning marches or major events, then we invite you to plan a March at your state’s capitol/major city! Visit queeryouthassemble.org to sign your org up. 

Slide 10 

An image of queer youth attending Queer Youth Assemble’s Let Trans Athletes Play event in August overlayed with text and checkboxes reading, “What can I do? Visit queeryouthassemble.org, share this post on your socials, and/or donate to support the march.”

[gothichorrorshow]

Queer youth autonomy protest!

Are you a queer person in the USA under 25 years old who wants to fight for their rights? Join the protest!

The Basics

This protest is a nation wide protest happening at every state capital and in Washington DC. The date will be March 31st, but there's much to do before then.

The website is queeryouthassemble and the tumblr account is @queeryouthautonomy I am not the official spokesperson or anything like that I just joined the State March Committee and am very passionate :D

If you reblog this post please head over to the official blog and give them a follow and reblog their pinned post! I made it easy for you by tagging them

State Marches

To get information on the locations, times, etc of your local state marches be sure to check this map for changes. Alternatively here's a link to the state march masterpost by the official blog.

While DC and state capitals are the priority, other marches will be held in various places. So hopefully you can find one close to you that you can attend!

DC March

The DC march will be the biggest march and the focus. The goal is to get people from all fifty states to attend. The focus is queer youth, but anyone who cares about queer rights can attend.

If funds are available, hopefully queer youths' trips to DC will be covered for those who can't afford it.

The march path will be mobility aid accessible and the speeches will be accessible for HoH and vision impaired folks!

List Of Demands

The list of demands is now complete! Click here to sign, whether as an individual or for an org.

Committees

The committees are entirely led by queer youth. The committees help organize the protests. There's four committees,

General March Committee: Provides input and suggestions for the general march, helps create a list of demands.

Resources and Guides Committee: Creates resources for safe protests and walkouts, advertises the resources on social media.

Washington DC March Committee: Contacts orgs and politicians to contribute to the DC protest (the biggest protest)

State March Committee: Organizes protests in the state capitals, updates website with state marches information, advertising the state marches.

Here's a direct link to the committee info and sign up!

Walkouts

Along with the protests they're also looking to organize peaceful walkouts at schools nation wide for the goal of having schools become supportive of queer youth.

If you want to organize one at your school, I personally recommend working with your school GSA club (if you have one, if not maybe you'd want to work on organizing one!)

Alternatives to walkouts are available too, there's plenty other ways you can organize an event at your school if walkouts would be too difficult.

Here's a link to further information on alternatives to walkouts and walkout safety.

Donations

Donations are needed to fund the protests! If you've got some spare money and want to support queer youth, please consider donating here!

Organizations

While I doubt I have this kind of reach, especially on tumblr (maybe if enough people reblog idk), if any orgs see this and are interested in supporting the protests,

State orgs: If you'd like to help organize/support a march in your state capital (or other important places) there's a form for you to fill out here.

Nationwide orgs: Your platform is needed for advertising. To find some flyers or pamphlets to use, look here. (I used one for this post)

[frumion-iii]

First they Came for the Children

Trans children will die,

are dying. 

Thanks to you,

there’s blood on every word I write.

The German said it best.

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.”

You think they’re finished?

These same men in power who spat on a dead girl’s grave?

I watched him laugh.

Make public mockery,

as weeping parents mourned their murdered child.

I watched you laugh.

We all did.

How does the next part go?

“Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.”

It’ll be the rest of us next.

Condemned for the bodies we make our own,

the adulthoods we build after running their gauntlet.

They’ll give a reason, of course.

some pantomime of well-justified concern.

Read all about it! Breaking news,

named CASSIE, for its older sibling CASS:

The new transgender legislation.

And here we’ll be.

“Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.”

The nazis hated us too, you know.

Burnt down the first trans health clinic way back in ’33.

Bet you didn’t know trans surgeries,

(trans stories)

went back that far.

We do.

We remember how this whole thing started.

The question is,

do you remember how it ends?

“Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

[revanchistsuperstar]

Speaking of GNC AF grandpas, I’d like everyone to meet mine.

The most bisexual sitter of all time, OG Gay Liberation activist and Unitarian Universalist Minister, Rev Randall Lee Gibson III.

Found this photo today while looking for a good one to put on a sign for our local Pride March this weekend.

Shout out to everyone else out there with bisexual and cunty grandpas.

And RIP Randy, you were a true original.

[youth-liberation-june]

i fr want to rewrite wordgirl w/ youth rights activism and anti-school kids 😏

i wanna see becky and her friends plan it out for their school like the nowhere girls

then take it to the next school, and the next!

idk 🤷🏽🤩

[sakana110602]

People only pay attention to the rights of young people when it comes to juvenile delinquency, and suddenly realize the unresonableness of age order. Of course, most people only think that the age of criminal responsibility should be lowered and the age of consent should be raised. But these two are based on the same premise: minors are innocent and ignorant, and they cannot be responsible for themselves, so they should be protected and forgiven. But this, fully reflects the double standard of ephebiphobia and pedophobia.

[itgetsbetterproject]

(☆ω☆)

Look at our Youth Voice Elliot and their mom, out there at the Texas State Capitol protesting for trans rights with none other than JVN! 🏳️‍⚧️

Btw, applications are open now for our next class of Youth Voices: itgetsbetter.org/youthvoices

[himmurf]

Transgender rights are still at risk.

Get active in your local government; time: YESTERDAY.

Contact your officials in two minutes.

Send a text to 50409 & put @resistbot to work.

Resistbot home:

My resistbot activity:

Text FOLLOW IVYPETITIONS to 50409 to be notified for new letters.

[radykalny-feminizm]

[tmarshconnors]

“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause?"

Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist

Born: 9 May 1921, Forchtenberg, Germany

Died: 22 February 1943, JVA Stadelheim München, Munich, Germany

[ihhfhonao3]

It’s good to change! It’s important to change! Many people who are super cool now used to be super mean! You can be one of the cool people if you try and listen

Comprehensive translation: It’s okay if you used to be homophobic. It’s okay if you used to be pro-censorship and anti-furry. It’s okay if you used to be ableist and racist. What matters is that you make ends meet and apologize to those you’ve hurt and make change now, by listening to the people you’ve hurt. Listening to their experiences and opinions. Many people, in fact, are indoctrinated from a young age, through their parents or the media, to think that “the other” is bad, and in most cases, “the other” is minority communities. You aren’t alone when you say you used to be homophobic and now identify as genderqueer bisexual. But you will be alone if you continue to be bigoted.

Obligatory addition of saying that kids can often me naive and cruel and stupid. But don’t shit on them for it. Help them learn. Teach them. They still have hope. They won’t have any if you double down and call them “puriteens” and dismiss them. Listen to them and teach them.

[queeryouthautonomy]

Ways to get involved with the movement:

Attend your local March for Queer and Trans Youth Autonomy on 3/31 (find your nearest march here)

Donate—visit our website or find us on Venmo/Paypal/Cashapp (@queeryouthassemble); we are fundraising for poster and first aid supplies, to pay speakers/interpreters, and transportation costs :)

If you can directly donate services or materials, please reach out to march@queeryouthassemble.org!

Be a marshal in DC—apply here!

Organize a walkout at your school

[nando161mando]

Wave of arrests in Turkey against members of the opposition

Early this morning, Turkish police arrested at least 231 opposition members throughout Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. Reasons for the arrests were not given.

Among those detained were top politicians from the DEM party, critical journalists, trade unionists and activists from various youth organizations.

The arrests come at a time when Erdogan's government is coming under increasing pressure. For weeks, there have been violent protests against the appointment of forced administrators, especially in the Kurdish areas dominated by the DEM party. The protests are continuing. It is obvious that the state's repression is intended to break the wave of protests.

The DEM Party declared: "If the government [...] thinks it can suppress the resistance by intensifying its attacks on the opposition, especially our party, then it is wrong!

[redwolf17]

🙃 Regular reminder that while Hozier has amazing love songs, he is ALSO very outspoken about his leftist politics, specifically anti-fascism, anti-racism, reproductive rights, Palestinian rights and more.

Take Me To Church and Foreigner’s God are scathing critiques of organized religion, specifically the Catholic Church and the colonization of Ireland.

Moment’s Silence is about oral sex but it’s ALSO about how that specific sexual act is often distorted to a show of power rather than that of love.

Nina Cried Power is an homage to various (mostly Black) civil rights activists from the US and Ireland and a call to follow their path.

Be criticizes anti-migrant policies and Trump and his ilk.

Jackboot Jump is about the global wave of fascism and about protest and resistance.

Swan Upon Leda is about reproductive rights and the violent colonial oppression of Ireland and Palestine.

Eat Your Young is about the ruinous way the 1%/capitalism and arms dealers prioritize short-term profit over everything else to the detriment of the youth/99%

Butchered Tongue is about Irish and other indigenous languages being suppressed and erased by imperial powers.

If any of the above surprised you, please, please delve deeper into Hozier’s music, you’re missing such an important part of his work.

[humanrightsday]

(Part 4) 18th International Human Rights Summit.

The International Human Rights Summit serves as a platform for top human rights activists, dignitaries, officials and youth, to exchange ideas, develop plans of action, and forward a movement in the name of international peace. Youth for Human Rights International holds the Summit with the purpose to bring education of the #UDHR to the forefront of academic attention as the medium to end the inhumane violations of these rights that plague our society. United Nations Human Rights

United Nations Headquarters

Watch (Part 4) 18th International Human Rights Summit!