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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...

November 08, 2016, teampoint

America Together: Moving Forward After Election Day

As a Political Science major and a political nerd, it has been exciting to witness and take part in...

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October 28, 2016, teampoint

The Importance of Voice & Interning at NCAAN

Since the start of this semester, I have been interning at the North Carolina AIDS Action Network...

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October 21, 2016, teampoint

Embracing Diversity

Our times are charged with issues of diversity--now more than ever before, minority issues are in...

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October 14, 2016, teampoint

La discriminación y sus intersecciones

In this post, HBO Point Scholar Daniel Berezowsky discusses the complexities of intersectionality...

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October 05, 2016, teampoint

University of Arizona Trans*Studies Conference

At the beginning of September, the University of Arizona hosted the inaugural Trans*Studies...

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September 09, 2016, teampoint

Being Trans in the Classroom

I meant to write this blog post about being trans while teaching. It will be about that, but as I...

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August 04, 2016, teampoint

National Leadership Conference (NLC) 2016

Having grown up in a low-income household, I never had the opportunity to travel very far. In fact,...

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July 14, 2016, teampoint

Point Scholar Valentin Sierra & Mentor Ed Callahan share their thoughts on the Mentoring Program

With our National Leadership Conference only one week away, we decided to share a throwback post...

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July 07, 2016, teampoint

Ask a Scholar: Is it harder to be considered by Point if you haven't attended college yet?

Question: I was looking through the previous Point Scholars and it seems to me that the majority of...

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June 24, 2016, Eugene Patron

Say Yes to the Dress: Femininity in Queer Spaces

Photo: Family photo with my moms and grandma. I grew up in pink tights and fluffy dresses. I loved...

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June 06, 2016, Eugene Patron

Ask a Scholar: Does a bad grade sink my chance of becoming a Point Scholar?

Question: “I am an excellent student, but my math class destroyed me this semester. In the sea of...

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May 01, 2016, Eugene Patron

Queering Justice

Before I was a Point Scholar, I wasn’t sure that I wanted to come out professionally as a queer...

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