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Unexpected Community at the #PointCommunityCollege Transfer Symposium

Never having been to Los Angeles before, I was excited to see the city and visit the USC campus for the Point Foundation Community College Transfer Symposium. Because of a last-minute itinerary change, I was dropped off only a few hours before our tour, so I unpacked, relaxed, and took in the unprecedentedly best view […]

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Finding your LGBTQ+ community at academic conferences

Six years ago, four friends and I sat at a tall wooden table near the entrance of Darwin’s Pub and waited to see if anyone else would show up. We had just come from the keynote presentation after a full day of conference talks at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology’s annual conference. That […]

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Inside IvyQ: Attending & Reflecting

This year has been an incredible year filled with new experiences. First of all, this fall, I packed my bags and flew across the country from Arizona to Connecticut to begin a new chapter in my life: college. As I have gotten settled in, I have noticed that no matter what your interests are, there […]

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Inside IvyQ: Organizing & Recharging

At the time that I’m writing this, it’s been about a week since the 2017 IvyQ Conference wrapped up at Yale University where I’m currently in my senior year. As one of three Co-Chairs who organized the conference and began planning it more than a year in advance, it was a bittersweet moment to see […]

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McKenna Attends the Community College Transfer Symposium

I’ll admit, the week leading up to the Community College Transfer Symposium was a tough one. I had just recently moved to the Los Angeles area and had just finally started to feel settled into a place I could call home. After all, I moved to the city with the full support of my family […]

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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, and slips of paper in a glass jar. As a volunteer sex-ed teacher at Hope 360, a Providence high school, I begin each class by inviting students to write questions on these pieces of paper. I am […]

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Affirming Identity Documentation for Michigan’s Trans Community

In my home state of Oregon, we vote at home via mail-in ballots. But in Michigan, where I go to school, I had to amble down to the local public library to cast my vote in person for the first time. The line snaked down a spiral staircase to the poll workers, where a man […]

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University of Arizona Trans*Studies Conference

    At the beginning of September, the University of Arizona hosted the inaugural Trans*Studies Conference – an international and transdisciplinary conference on gender, embodiment, and sexuality. Spearheaded by the incredible effort of U of A’s Institute for LGBT Studies, planning for the conference concretely began last Fall with the assemblage of a steering committee […]

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LEAD & New Directions in LGBTQ Advocacy

A few weeks ago, Point Foundation hosted its Leadership Education & Affinities Development (LEAD) Consortium on Policy & Law, which served as an opportunity for Point Scholars, Alumni, mentors, and guest speakers to convene, exchange ideas, and brainstorm about the current state of LGBTQ advocacy. We were greeted by a number of policy analysts, legal experts, […]

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Scholar Sid Puri (left) with students from the LGBTIQQ lecture series

Scholar Siddarth Puri Creates LGBTIQQ Lecture Series at UC Davis School of Medicine

Point Scholars are required to complete an annual Community Service Project (CSP) that will positively impact the LGBTQ community.  Here is a highlight of Point Scholar Siddarth Puri’s recent CSP. The 2011 LGBT Healthcare report by the Institute of Medicine noted that stigma and provider knowledge were two of the major deterrents to receiving quality healthcare […]

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