We Rock Athens

We Rock Athens We provide empowerment programming, via music, for girls and gender expansive youth

OUR CORE VALUES:

As a youth-serving community nonprofit organization, We Rock Athens envisions a reality that fosters opportunity, joy, and self-determined prosperity across all genders, socio-economic classes, ethnicities, and identities. To this end, we:

-provide leadership opportunities, build self-esteem, and provide a safe place for personal expression
-strive for a community that celebrate

s diversity and the thriving of intersecting identities
-question power structures that disenfranchise members of community based on identity
-promote activism in support of positive social norms to the collective benefit of all

In service of these core values, we:

-are committed to nurturing a camper and volunteer infrastructure that is grounded in equality by providing a space that is accessible to all regardless of ethnicity, gender identity, religious/political affiliation, socio-economic status, abilities, or primary language
-partner with organizations, individuals, and intimate communities to uplift the goals and needs of the people of Athens
-prioritize buying local and supporting organizations within our community
-strive to ensure that participants, volunteers, staff, and board of directors reflect the demographics of the community, with an emphasis on recognizing cultural competence

As a member organization of the Girls Rock Camp Alliance, WRA honors the work of the Alliance and other member camps by incorporating their goals into our current and future goals. To learn more about the work of the Alliance, please visit http://girlsrockcampalliance.org/

Are y’all following ?!? NEXT WEEK AT LITTLE KINGS AND IT’S GONNA ROCK!!Swipe for lineup
07/20/2023

Are y’all following ?!?
NEXT WEEK AT LITTLE KINGS AND IT’S GONNA ROCK!!
Swipe for lineup

Athens, we have missed you!!!! We are emerging from this pandemic - slowly but surely, we swear. We know that now, more ...
06/07/2023

Athens, we have missed you!!!! We are emerging from this pandemic - slowly but surely, we swear. We know that now, more than ever, the youth in our community need a place to discover their voices and unleash the power of their own creativity - and while we would love to dive into rock camp head first, we simply do not have the infrastructure to move forward with camp this summer. That being said, we hope you’ll join us in rebuilding our organization this year. We have plenty more to come so let’s freaking rock!!!

ALL APRIL LONG AT ! Our friends have whipped up the Eastern Standard with a portion of the sales going to WRA! Don’t mis...
04/04/2023

ALL APRIL LONG AT !
Our friends have whipped up the Eastern Standard with a portion of the sales going to WRA! Don’t miss it.

Want to support Girls Rock Athens? Our friends at The National are having a percentage night TOMORROW! Get out of that A...
06/23/2022

Want to support Girls Rock Athens? Our friends at The National are having a percentage night TOMORROW! Get out of that AthFest heat for a bit and have some awesome food!

02/19/2022
01/25/2022

Please Share: LGBTQ+ Art Removed from Local Classroom

We want you to take a good look at the image above– the artwork of a child. Is there anything threatening about it? The answer is no. Do you see any hate speech? Surely not. It is beautiful, a reminder to each of us in this time of great divide that there is hope, that love abounds, that acceptance is paramount– and all from the eyes of a child: “Gay is okay.”

It’s been brought to our attention that one local school’s administration at Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary did not find the art to be “okay”. A local teacher has had the art hanging in her classroom since October, as part of several different student art pieces. According to the teacher, one parent eventually complained to the principal.

The principal reportedly asked the teacher to move the art to a less offensive place– she stood in solidarity with the student and did not remove the piece. We have been told she was then summoned to the principal and vice principal’s office, where the display of the rainbow and verbiage were reportedly likened to “displaying a n**i symbol” by the school’s vice principal.

Our schools should be a safe place for all children to thrive. What message has now been sent to our students and their teachers about how safe their school is for LGBTQ+ children? Athens Pride and Athens Q***r Collective remain committed to fighting back against all forms of oppression here at home. We talk often about how inclusive Athens is- we must make sure that inclusiveness is found in the aisles of our businesses and the classrooms in our schools.

The truth is, our children are watching and they are listening. See the comments on this post for some statistics regarding LGBTQ+ youth from The Trevor Project or visit https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2021/

In addition to standing with the students, parents, and faculty, Athens Pride and Athens Q***r Collective remains committed to uplifting our youth and providing spaces for them to be exactly who they are. In partnership, Athens Pride and Athens Q***r Collective will continue to expand our LGBTQ+ Youth Group, that meets monthly. Stay tuned for updates and announcements regarding our next meeting location. We will also begin engaging with our local education communities to identify how we can better support their efforts to provide true safe spaces. Please consider a donation on this post– all money raised will be used to specifically invest in our 2022 youth outreach initiatives.

This community, Athens Pride, and Athens Q***r Collective stands with you and will continue to advocate for you. We call upon the Athens-Clarke County School Board to open a full inquiry into the events that happened.

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We are finally officially changing our name! If anyone has experience with changing the name of a nonprofit and would li...
09/11/2021

We are finally officially changing our name! If anyone has experience with changing the name of a nonprofit and would like to volunteer to help us get this right please message us! In the meantime, we're rocking and rolling and letting you know who we really are: WE ROCK ATHENS! Our Facebook name change is under review and we're working on changing it everywhere we can, while we look into all the ~official~and~legal~ changes that need to be made. Our mission has included girls, trans youth, and gender expansive youth for quite a while, we are reflecting this in our name change. Thanks for your support!

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