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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. 

As campuses across the country enact the anti-LGBTQ, and anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies passed in 2023, 2024 begins with more than 470 proposed anti-LGBTQ bills in state...

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, a...

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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. However,...

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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 for...

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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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January 08, 2018, teampoint

5 Queer Things you didn't learn in art history class

I’m Casey Hoke, a Point Foundation Scholar and a loud, proud, self-proclaimed Queer Art Historian....

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January 03, 2018, teampoint

Top 9: LGBTQ Resistance in Trump’s First Year

As members and supporters of the LGBTQ community, 2017 was a difficult year. A hostile President...

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