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Uplift and Support LGBTQ+ Young People

Celebrate Pride Month by taking action to support LGBTQ+ youth in increasingly hostile school environments and in our communities. The new spring magazine feature “A Refuge for LGBTQ+ Young People” explains students’ rights and how gender and sexuality alliance (GSA) clubs provide spaces for young people to thrive. This new article and these LFJ resources highlight that everyone benefits when inclusivity is intentional.

  • A Refuge for LGBTQ+ Young People
  • Inclusive Education Benefits All Children
  • Queer People Have Always Existed—Teach Like It
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Recognize Trailblazers on Women’s Equality Day

Women’s Equality Day commemorates the ratification of the 19th Amendment on Aug. 26, 1920. It’s important to remember that many Black women and more women of color didn’t earn the right to vote until years later. Read Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” with its intersectional message delivered during her 1851 speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Also, check out an LFJ lesson featuring an accurate voting rights timeline, and identify ways to take a deeper look at women’s history this Women’s Equality Day—and beyond.

  • Ain’t I a Woman?
  • The True History of Voting Rights
  • A More Complete Women’s History
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Lee Anne Bell, Ed.D.

Lee Anne Bell, Ed.D., is the author of Storytelling for Social Justice, co-editor and author of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, and producer of 40 Years Later: Now Can We Talk?, a documentary film that focuses on the first class of Black students to desegregate a Mississippi high school, streamed at https://vimeo.com/537431634.