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Solidarity Week
Solidarity is a voluntary collective action by different people based on finding common objectives and solutions. Solidarity work happens when you show up to help and support others experiencing some form of harm by centering their leadership, decisions, needs, requests, and ideas.
How you show up.... or don't, makes all the difference. Click below for more information and to register your participation.
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Solidarity Week Guides
Monday
LGBT2Sq+
Native American
and
indigenous focus day
Anchorage Museum exhibition site
Watch:
@showme_yourmask
Listen:
This links to a webpage that has 4 podcast episodes (transcripts available) specifically about Indigenous & Two-Spirit Topics
Resources:
The Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN) is an organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada.
Find out whose lands you live on, then research how you can pay a land tax or otherwise support Indigenous communities living near you.
Act:
Here at the GLSEN WA office, we are located on the traditional homelands of the Duwamish tribe.
"You can do something today to stand in solidarity with First Peoples of this land by paying Real Rent. All funds go directly to Duwamish Tribal Services (DTS) to support the revival of Duwamish culture and the vitality of the Duwamish Tribe."
Tuesday
LGBTQ+ Disability Justice Focus Day
Read:
Disability advocate, Patty Berne, writes about “a movement towards a world in which every mind and body is known as beautiful.”
Writing by Kay Ulanday Barrett and Eli Clare
Kay Ulanday Barrett aka @Brownroundboi is a poet, performer, and cultural strategist.
Eli Clare "weaves hope, critical analysis, and compassionate storytelling together in his work on disability and queerness, insisting on the twine of race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability."
An infographic presented by, the Movement Advancement project, the Center for American Progress, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the National LGBTQ Task Force.
A thread of accessible, online, free disability justice thought.
Watch:
@themotherbirdie
Notes:
The word "crip" has been reclaimed within parts of the disability community in the same way that "queer" has in the LGBTQ+ community. As with all reclaimed words, not every member of the identifies with/or likes the term.
Not all people who are d/Deaf consider themselves disabled. Many d/Deaf people don't identifies as disabled.
A capital "D" is used in reference to the Deaf community. A lowercase "d" is used in reference to the audiological condition of not hearing or for deaf people who don't have strong ties to the deaf community.
Resources:
Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized.
Discover the remarkable stories of people with disabilities through the Museum of disABILITY History!
Act:
This link is a PDF, assembled by Sins Invalid, to use as a starting point to make your school or organization’s events accessible.
Wednesday
Intersex Youth Focus Day
Read:
Watch:
Notes:
Not all Non-binary people identify as trans.
Alex Iantaffi interviews Addison Rose Vincent (they/them), a 27-year-old queer transfeminine nonbinary advocate from Los Angeles, CA.
Listen:
Resources:
Thursday
Black LGBTQ+ Focus Day
Read:
Watch:
Listen:
This links to a webpage that has 5 episodes about on the topic Black Trans Lives Matter
Content warning: This 17-minute song is a collaborative work featuring several influential guests speaking the names and showing pictures of over fifty murdered black women. It shows newspaper clippings about each woman's death. This recording serves both as a protest against police brutality and a fundraiser for Black Lives Matter.
Act:
This link leads you to a page with a long list of groups and allows you to split your donation up among them!
Friday
LGBTQ+ Immigrant Youth Focus Day
Read:
Watch:
Learn about Urooj Arshad, The UndocuQueer Movement, and Bamby Salcedo
Act:
Donate to Black LGBTQ+ migrants and first generation people dealing with the impact of COVID-19 through the link above.