Dear Year Up,
We wish all of our young adults and colleagues a very Happy Pride!!
We hope you have been finding ways this Pride month to celebrate our LGBTQ+ community members and the rich layers of their different stories and journeys.
We believe that acknowledging, honoring, and inviting our LGBTQIA community members to bring their full authentic selves into our Year Up community every day, is a way of being that we want to uphold all year through, and we hope that Pride inspires each of us to educate ourselves about our LGBTQ+ history and continued struggles for basic human rights.
We are excited to share with you this video that Dr. Onllwyn Dixon created to reflect upon and honor Pride.
We’ve also provided just a couple of ways that you can stand in solidarity with our LGBTQ+ community (there are many!!):
- Go here to learn more about anti-trans legislation across the country, and search #transweekofaction on Instagram to be directed to ways to take action and get involved.
- In the spirit of centering the most historically and presently marginalized voices, we encourage all of our community members to spend time listening and learning from Trans stories and stories across the LGBTQIA umbrella. Check out Translash Media and It Gets Better Project’s Blog Moments of Joy.
Wishing you all a very Happy Pride,
Year Up’s DEIB Team
Dr. Onllwyn Dixon (he/him/his or they/them/their), Megan Doherty-Baker (she/her/hers), Val Gomez (she/her/hers), Jaynell Bryant (she/her/hers), and Ronda Harris Thompson (she/her/hers)