#gsa kids

[tigerrsmn]

"Say their name!"

Call and response at the Twin Cities vigil for Nex Benedict, organized by Thomas Edison High Gender and Sexuality Alliance.

[It is important to say their name. What’s their name?

(Crowd) Nex Benedict!

Say their name.

(Crowd) Nex Benedict!

Say their name.

(Crowd) Nex Benedict!]

#nex benedict #protect intersex lives #protect trans youth #protect trans lives #protect trans kids #native lives matter #trans lives matter #community #nonbinary #vigil #anti trans violence #mmir #trans rights #minneapolis #minnesota #twin cities #enby #gnc #gsa #two spirit #trans community #activism #transgender #intersex #genderqueer #say their names #say their name

[itgetsbetterproject]

ApRiL fOoLs - the deadline to apply for $10,000 for your school has been extended one more week to April 8!

That's one more week to dream up an idea for how to make your school a more welcoming place for LGBTQ+ students. Maybe your school could use...

• An educational Pride conference

• A Pride mural painted on campus

• More resources for your GSA club or library

• A gender-neutral bathroom or gender-affirming closet

• Or maybe something else YOU know your community needs?

We can help make it happen! Middle and high schoolers in the US, DC, and territories can apply now through April 8, 2024 at 50states50grants.org! Read the FAQs, watch the webinars about the application process, and submit your idea now - can't wait to see what you come up with.

#itgetsbetter #50states50grants #gsa #TDOV #queeryouth #lgbtq youth #studyblr #queer youth #protect trans kids #lgbtqia

[dunsbar]

#malcolm in the middle #malcolm wilkerson #needed an ep where malcolm joins the GSA and hal spends the whole episode worried his son is gay and trying to get him to do ‘straight #things’ #none of the rest of the family thinks its a big deal at all because they have their own subplots (reese and dewey are scamming students #by starting an ambiguous political revolution on the block so teenagers feel like they have a cause to rebel against #and lois is dealing with an annoying recurring customer at lucky aide who does something very specifically irritating and she has escalated #the situation into full blown archenemy territory #so hal is trying to get his son to do manly things all episode but malcolm is busy doing stuff for the GSA and hal is getting more and #more freaked out only to walk outside one day and see malcolm playing basketball with some kids in the driveway and hes satisfied with this #after hal walks away its revealed malcolm is playing with two guys from the GSA who have to leave for their date #and its never revealed why malcolm joined the GSA

[m0e-ru]

appointment came a day early

#persona 4 spoilers #persona 4 #p4 #tohru adachi #moel gas station attendant #⛽️🌫 #izanami persona #shadow adachi #sho minazuki #gsa sl au #marie persona #kusumi home #souji seta #kusuriuri #ゲッー #arttag #boot.tingting #komikku #// teetering on the edge into a possible fever god my throat's so sore but it's so hot i cant afford to not stay in ac rooms #// kid is yuuta probably what was eri's kid's name again.i forgot how he loooked like too WHOOPS #// new guest every time i post stuff like this. he might come back another day #// not fond of imagining mimi with an inner voice or monologue but it's funny some times

[pigeonwit]

new idea for a dnd character: a very shy and repressed trans kid who makes a deal with a warlock patron to change their name in the minds of everyone forever for the price of serving in that patrons name. the patron is an arch-fey drag queen and it turns out they had a different definition of 'serving' in mind.

#im planning a fantasy high meets billie the kid oneshot about a bunch of kids at a shitty bigoted high school trying to start a GSA

[antiterf]

You know how adults go "oh no one came out as trans or gay when I was a kid. Must be all social!"

I graduated high school in 2019. So many people in that school only came out after they graduated because it's in such a conservative evangelical area.

Many of the teachers and stuff were commuting from Chicago because Illinois public school system sucks for anyone who's not in an upper middle class area and were supportive.

The issue was mainly being afraid of parental backlash. The GSA tried to get more comprehensive sex ed (we didn't even learn about mouth guards, all we learned about was condoms with a huge push on abstinence), and immediantly got a no because it can come off as "encouraging" that behavior. The school counselors tried to keep the GSA from inviting older queer people to speak because then they may be forced to allow anti gay speakers in.

The Day of Silence got so many students picked on and for a video about it the club got in trouble for showing two boys kissing. It was rebranded by students as "for kids who committed suicide from bullying" without the LGBTQ part. The Day of Silence.

That was the club that allowed me to come out and accept myself by the way. It wasn't all negative but it was beyond limited and filled with the reminder that we were not welcome like cishet students were.

I came out in that school because I didn't have any other choice. My mental health was life risking at the time. When I did I got a bit more popular, but that's because I never talked or hung out with anyone before. I had to constantly be on guard though and did get harassed. There were students that actively avoided me too.

Of course I met trans people in the school, but usually they came out to me because I was the out trans person. They too avoided being too out.

ROGD was published in 2018. The year that I finally got the ability to socially transition in school. And it's so, so ignorant to what many of us outside of big cities and liberal areas go through. What people say about how it's so better now and for *my* generation are right in many ways, but also dismiss what me and many of my classmates went through. It took so much bravery to come out at that school and we were all kids.

And I know that I still had it much better than students in middle and high school right now in other schools in America.

Point is, I wish those people would shut up. Not only because their scare tactics are hurting the rights of queer kids, but because their attitudes of them are so dismissive to what they go through every day.

#I changed in the nurses supply closet #I was scared of using the bathrooms and got multiple utis #I hated that I was trans and the school was only okay to me because I did #trans students were kept from giving blood #the gsa homecoming poster was ripped down #kids were too afraid to be seen at the gsa #notaterftip #not sarcasm #when sylvia rivera talked about how trans people were at the front of the movement I related #because my gender identity had to be exposed to my world #and it ended up with me being one of the loudest people in the school about it #I should reach out to some staff and see if I can come in and see how its going #maybe theyll let me speak without allowing a homophobe to

[dyklopces]

^ trans boy at the high school gsa meeting who is severely allergic to tree nuts PLEASE BE WARY if you bring baked goods to a meeting. his favorite band is black flag #binderslouch

oh god im so sorry my brownies have walnuts in them oh god oh no

#frankie fucks about #ezra #the thing us there were at least 3 kids at my hs gsa that looked exactly like this and i w as one of them. #BINDER SLOUCH SWEEP

[gxlden-angels]

I finally found the little ✨Dream Girl✨ passage in the Faithgirlz! Bible that made me realize I might just be gay

#You can't tell me this doesn't sound like a lil 11 year old getting a crush on their best friend #mostly because I 100% agreed with this passage and turns out I just had a crush on my best friend #I was like 13-14 I think #But emotionally and developmentally behind a bit because ya know #The Whole Cult Thing #so I never recognized childhood crushes until high school when I fell Hard for my bestie #who luckily no longer has tumblr lol #this is literally what my first crushes felt like even before I recognized them #I love a good childhood friendship between young girls that lasts and allows for growth #but also this is so fuckin gay this is so fuckin gsa blushing kicking my feet doodling their name gay #it's so cute #sucks that it's a passage for girls in a bible #otherwise it would be a great way to talk about having a crush on a girl and how to reconcile with that in our current society #I'm reading it again and it's really so so gay in a way only a repressed christian who refuses to believe they could be gay can write #and I know #because I used to be that repressed lil gay kid #ex christian #religious trauma

[mistermaxwellboucherdieasilived]

IM THEORIZING feel free to chime in but be respectful. Interesting consequence of queerness being more mainstream (in the US) is that young queer people are more integrated into mainstream culture regarding sex and as a result dont learn about queer culture regarding sex. So we end up with generations of young queer people who have the same attitudes about sex as the dominant (white, cishet, christian) ideology. Thus that post where a person calls having sex with your friends "hookup culture" and thus all the queer kids/young adults who think cruising or whatever is gross

#im also wondering abt how access to queer-centered spaces has changed #bc schools will have GSAs but i imagine they arent learning about sex culture #bc public schools cant teach that #so queer kids are learning abt being queer and connecting to mainly queer people their age in school #in a predominantly white/cishet/american space #instead of meeting queer adults. i dont even know how i would find queer adults. #anyways #just interesting #q slur

[pigeon-wizard]

made some quick and messy pride edits of some of my favourite characters with my haedcannons for them :3 i wanted to do one for Valarie but you would barely be able to see the flag :<

#alt title: the local GSA kids and their cool sponsor teacher #<- that would be a fun nonsense fanfic AU. might think of writing that lol #pokemon #headcannons #gym leader clemont #gym leader raihan #gym leader marnie #hau #pigeon-posts #transparent

[change-the-rules]

I like to think that post-cheryl and the gang graduating, cheerleading ended up becoming like riverdale's stereotypical euphemism for lesbianism ya know like softball so by the time the river vixens get revived it's like

'i'm trying out for the cheerleading squad' 'oh huh didn't know you flipped that way' kinda stuff

and whilst it is important to me that it's not Because of cheryl in a Super Intentional way, more like part consequence of cheryl's HBIC energy magnifying her Big Gay Energy, coupled with a preexisting higher percentage of on the DL queerleaders already on the squad (I'm looking at you early seasons backwards snapback vixen and 1950's closeted couple who came out the second 50's cheryl did, betty and veronnica also count retroactively fite me) with just a dash of influence from choni's Epic Romance

it is equally important to me that toni and cheryl have been all but like Mythologized at riverdale high particularly to the queer students that follow

like c'mon A Blossom and A Southside Serpent ensured the rumor mill would always pay attention but then they went ahead and had their first kiss during a rescue from an illegal conversion therapy operation for the love of gaia, Absolute Legend behaviour

and its like even without the high stakes backdrop of gangs and cults and serial killers and lethal rpgs and atrcious parenting coloring their narrative

they are undeniably The riverdale high Power Couple, president blossom and first Lady topaz? never met a seat they couldn't share? officially the first sapphic prom queens in riverdale history?

Like the impact of all that and more doesn't get erased in 7-8 years and it's not at all outside the realm of possibilities that there are vixens on the team who have older siblings who were even in school at the same time as choni

which brings me to the main dumb reason this post exists which is i just desperately need a bunch of the vixens 2.0 to be queer and fucking here for the frenemy ex's Drama cheryl and toni are serving in 5.07

like it would be a travesty if there weren't a single Gay^TM to witness this absolute masterpiece of an interaction

from the record scratch music stop at cheryl's entrance (that ive just now decided was absolutely real and done by one of the cheerleader's gf's (who helps out with the tech side of stuff and is sitting on the bleachers recording practice for later analysis) armed with a radio remote control and the impeccable dramatic timing of a queer theatre kid) to toni's self-satisfied greeting from successfully pushing cheryl's buttons

'well,well,well'

'miss winchester herself'

'Another Surprise Visit'

Elton fucking John

'the bitch is back in town' self-referential 😘

'ThIs SqUaD iS mY BiRtHrIgHt'

'wrong' the divorced parents are fighting over the kiddddd

HUN

'so what are you going to do about That?'

the dual HBIC shirts (like Of Course cheryl has a red HBIC shirt in the practice uniform style but toni ALSO got a fucking maternity dress custom made like c'mon mfeo)

The intense eyefucking and insane crackling energy of 2 people who can be anything but indifferent to each other no matter how hard they try

Just All of The That above between them being seen through the eyes of gossipy little high school shits who find themselves actually kind of ridiculously invested in their front row seats for a new installment of the choni saga

#the GSA meeting that day was wild i promise #ive got a bunch a thoughts and snippets From the kids pov but this got long #ive been wanting to write a fic with britta in it #bc i love britta but the a03 tags are lacking #and also alarming to my personal tastes when it comes to her *snorts* #maybe ill tie some of these thoughts into that fic if i ever manage to Get through my s5 rewatch #choni #also kevin's face when he realizes that the halls are alight with 'choni' gossip #and he has to find veronica like what year is it #toni topaz #cheryl blossom #cheryl x toni

[tigerrsmn]

"I don't want to hear in another 25, that we have another Matthew Shepard, that we have another Nex Benedict. We need to protect our kids now."

Amelia Marquez (she/they), Thomas Edison High teacher, speaking at the Twin Cities vigil for Nex Benedict, organized by Thomas Edison High Gender and Sexuality Alliance. (transcript below)

[My name is Miss Amelia Marquez, as I am commonly getting told I am now. Um, my pronouns are she and they and I apologize, I lost my voice last night, uh, screaming at somebody that said that educators are only worth a 3% wage increase.

(Crowd) You sound great.

(Crowd 2) Yeah, you sound great.

I see you. Um, as a teacher--as a trans and two spirit teacher--I want to offer all of my sympathies to my little cousin, Nex. Things like this should not be happening. But I can tell you, as somebody that grew up and is a trans refuge here in your lovely state from the state of Montana, that it continues to happen. I have students that I had to leave back in Montana that continued to beg, that I can help them, that their home was not safe for them, that they needed protection. But I needed to take care of myself. I needed to put my air mask on before I protected other people, and I promised them I would not stop fighting for them a single day of my life. My students are precious to me. Absolutely precious. They also get me to do wild things like this. I plea with each and every one of you, especially my cisgender friends and relatives, and in our lovely crowd tonight.

Please don't stop talking. Get out there. These kids should not be afraid to go to the bathroom in our public schools here in Minneapolis, in Saint Paul. It is necessary that our school districts start to look at the funding that was passed this legislative session, thanks to that fucking phenomenal queer caucus--sorry kids--and that we start to actually make change happen. Real change doesn't happen from the top down. Real change happens from the bottom up. And we need, we need for our school districts here in the city as a trans refuge area, to start to act, to start to make these schools safer, to make it so that those little babies back in Montana have a place when they get over here. Because I can tell you, many of them in conservative America are planning to come out here. Please make it a safe place for them. Make it so we do not have future situations. I don't want to hear in another 25, that we have another Matthew Shepard, that we have another Nex Benedict. We need to protect our kids now. Thank you.]

#nex benedict #protect intersex lives #protect trans youth #protect trans lives #protect trans kids #native lives matter #community #anti trans violence #trans community #trans rights #transgender #nonbinary #vigil #mmir #minneapolis #twin cities #minnesota #enby #gnc #gsa #two spirit #intersex #genderqueer

[thecooler]

I was doing lunch supervision earlier and a kid described a classmate as "the tall blond theater kid" and I looked around and didn't see a blond so I said "I actually don't think blonds are real" and the whole class lost it. This middle school shit is easy

#that class was like half gsa kids tho so im their favorite 😌 #baz talks

[m0e-ru]

losers meetup

#persona 4 spoilers #persona 5 royal spoilers #p4 #p5 #gsa sl au #takuto maruki #tohru adachi #arttag #boot.tingting #komikku #// IGNORE the inconsistency of the chairs . like i care <- on their knees #// they let maruki do psych evals since they were spending too much of the budget on professionals and this guy would do it free of charge #// 'sorry god kinda used my body as a vessel for a separate avatar and um some kid fucked up both my corneas even though it had one eye' #// i tried to draw susanoo and yosuke trying to stop gigi and souji . souji has kill maim murder here #// adding onto the college acquaintances part yes woo yes everyone loves putting maruki in inaba 💪 #// adachi knowing maruki was a cognitive psience major he would steer clear explaining all of the tv shit #// he joked about how this guy could 'really' change the world if it was real and now hes seen it with his own eyes he doesnt #// want to take any chances he saw namatame grow a messiah complex what about this ween #// if i mess up royal lore please blow up this gas station #// adachi isnt really in prison yet so hes just in his shirt with a number ID oh this takes place before arena too

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is breaking down crying asking your mom to talk to your step dad about his non-stop jokes about your love life because it makes you uncomfortable and then literally the next day she makes a joke about your love life. fml

:(

#aro culture is #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod alexander #arophobia cw #amatonormativity cw #what is it with ppl and not caring about that type of boundary i swear #even alloro kids get super fucked up by it!! #i had a white cis straight jock dude in a math class once ask the teacher to stop joking about him being a lady's man #in high school nonetheless #and the teacher looked kinda shocked when the entire class either chimed in in support or watched #to his credit he stopped making those sorts of jokes within ~2 weeks #which for white dude who was fully white-haired where he still had hair was sorta impressive #buuuuuut he'd also gotten a major talking to recently by a friend of mine re: him saying something #that led to me being grounded for 2 weeks for purely transphobic reasons #and that girl did NOT pull punches when she felt you needed a kick in the ass #(which could be. interesting at times in her position as an officer of the GSA) #she was very sweet except when she had permission to be angry on someone's behalf

[knifeslidez]

there seems to be two kinds of very young queer kids that are occurring:

1. hyper-edgelords with no understanding of boundaries who don't understand how to properly engage with queer people in a way that isnt loudly calling someone a slur in a public place

2. very sheltered, highly reactionary and undereducated on actual queer history. will have a breakdown at you because they think your identity is offensive somehow

they do, however, share the following traits:

- cannot/will not engage with any serious discussions of sociopolitical issues

- has rarely interacted with queer people outside of an online environment

- also likely to have never talked to people with identities and experiences much different than their own

- will probably grow into being insufferable twitter gays

#most of the people who fit these are white transmascs who live in moderately accepting environments but i have seen a few outliers #anyway this obviously isnt any hatred towards these kids #its more just. annoyance and frustration #cuz like. they make queer spaces (both on and offline) hellish #the kind of people im describing are why i dont engage with youth pride events or my school's gsa or anything #because they always make the environments so them-centric that i feel deeply unwelcome #anyway. sleep deprived and ranting cuz i had queer shit on the brain #ghoul groans