My mentee Foluke has always been a team player and a hidden gem behind the scenes in the LGBTQ+ community at John Jay and in my program Q’onnections. I like to showcase Foluke a little bit with my post because…
Stepping Off the Curb: Transformative Justice and Community Change in the little things
What moves us to engagement is often less a reasoned evaluation of all possible options that bring us to a rational decsion and more a felt response: It just seems the right thing to do given what we see, hear,…
My Digital Friday Recap: Asserting your Identity in Higher Education
La Protagonizade Traumatizada: Tracing Intersectional Queer Truama For Future Heros
What’s something you think you’re an expert on? This is a question I’ve been thinking about for a while now. You know, my topics always tend to be queer-centered. I think many of my topics tend to be queer-centered because…
The Future is Queerer
Two years ago I sat in the bullpen of John Jay’s student council. I exhaustedly slaved over project after LGBTQ+ support project. I wanted so badly to change something. The Student council president Amber Rivero nodded and held my chicken…
Learning to Assert your Identity with Q’onnections
What is Q’onnections?
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The goal is to inform LGBTQ+ students and connect them
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A program under LGBTQ+ and allies club that pairs up LGBTQ+ students with LGBTQ+ peers.
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The program aims to accomplish a sense of belonging within the college in students’ time at John Jay fostering growth, Community building, Advocacy, Leadership, Identity (C.A.L.I).
Reflecting on Making Education More Equitable
Special thanks to JJproductions and Twitter.com/NYoption for helping produce the audio for this podcast. This podcast was made in conjunction with these fellow peers:
Then I dropped two classes..
I have been aching to submit my post for some time but, time is fleeting, as life always is isn’t it? Why, am I so late I ask myself even as I write this…but I know why it is because…
