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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...

July 31, 2017, teampoint

For the Trans Community, Military Means Opportunity

HSBC Point Scholar Landon Marchant (credit: Williams College) "Greater love has no one than this:...

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May 05, 2017, teampoint

LGBTQ Sex Ed Is Crucial - Here's Why

On Friday mornings, I wake up at 6:45 and pack a bag of condoms, Planned Parenthood info sheets,...

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May 01, 2017, teampoint

The Need for Trans Inclusive Educators

When most people think of Title IX – the 1972 law that prohibits sex discrimination in public...

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April 27, 2017, teampoint

My Experience with Trans Healthcare, From Patient to Doctor

In 2006 I was sitting in the waiting room of a monthly free trans health clinic in Portland. It was...

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April 12, 2017, teampoint

Volunteering Is More Than Just A Resume Builder

This year I’ve learned a lot about service. In high school, I earned the Gold Presidential...

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March 30, 2017, teampoint

An Engineer’s Place in Activism

It seems that over the last few months, there has been a push for social activism that I have not...

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March 27, 2017, teampoint

Bridging the Divide One Story at a Time

I grew up shrouded with privilege. I’m not just referring to the racial and economic status I was...

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March 23, 2017, teampoint

How Bathrooms Enforce the Gender Binary

Today I read an article discussing the possible criminal legal implications of the flourishing...

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March 10, 2017, teampoint

Hidden Figures, the Right to Public Space, and Histories of Resistance

There are many reasons why I love the movie “Hidden Figures,” a film about the brave and brilliant...

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March 06, 2017, teampoint

Lack of Queer Sex Ed is More Than Tragedy, It’s State Violence

For my community service project this year, I chose to compile sexual health resources that were...

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March 02, 2017, teampoint

DSCH and Politicized Symphonies As They Exist Today

It has been said that “all art is political.” In the history of Western classical music, this has...

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February 27, 2017, teampoint

History of the Word: Transgender

The many letters of “LGBTQ+” have a complex, often tense relationship: supposedly all under the...

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