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Discover stories about how Point Foundation LGBTQ students, alumni and network are impacting communities world-wide. 

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Discover stories about how Point Foundation LGBTQ students, alumni and network are impacting communities world-wide. 

LGBTQ representation on US television is at an all-time high, according to a GLAAD study. In 2022, LGBTQ characters made up about 12% of all television characters and shows like Euphoria, The L Word:...

April 11, 2018, teampoint

LGBTQ+ Media to Brighten Your Timeline

Not sure where to turn for sanity during Trump Times? LGBTQ+ media of the distant-past,...

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April 04, 2018, teampoint

Creating Community Through Theatre

  There is a surprising amount of theatre going on in rural Grinnell, Iowa. There’s the Theatre &...

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March 28, 2018, teampoint

Thinking about activism from an international perspective

  As an International student coming from mainland China, the experiences of being a Point Scholar,...

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March 22, 2018, teampoint

Dear Younger Self

When you’re five, you’re going to dress like a boy - and it’s totally going to be fine. No one is...

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March 06, 2018, teampoint

10 Things I Learned Transferring to Cornell University

  After two years at the Culinary Institute of America I graduated with a degree in baking and...

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February 27, 2018, teampoint

Diversity in the Legal Profession: There is Hope

  The lack of diversity in the legal profession, particularly in the nation’s largest law firms,...

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February 21, 2018, teampoint

Expressing Identity on Stage

Photo by Paul Kruse As a first year John Wells Directing MFA Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University,...

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February 15, 2018, teampoint

Black Gay Nightlife and Black History Month

    I’m a historian, so it’s not going to shock you that I want you to love history like I do....

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February 07, 2018, teampoint

Take a Break With Your Favorite Queer Stories

  My first instinct was to write this post about what it was like to be back home in Mississippi...

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January 30, 2018, teampoint

Am I Queer Today? Or Am I Black?

  Last semester, I received the honor of being named a 2017-2018 GLAAD Campus Ambassador. In this...

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January 23, 2018, teampoint

Learning Beyond the Classroom: Studying Abroad in Dominican Republic

  In my Spring semester of 2018, I am very grateful to be studying abroad in Santiago de los...

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January 16, 2018, teampoint

Hashtag allyship is not enough

 Photo: Petit_louis on Flickr   These days, it’s hard to distinguish whether we were living in a...

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