Stanford Students For Queer Liberation

06/16/2016

It is with pain and heartache that the Black Lives Matter Network extends love, light, protection, and abundance to our family in Orlando, Florida. We love you. Black people are a diverse community, and though the hate-filled rhetoric of the conservative right is currently trying to pit us against o...

09/09/2014

A Tech-Based Apprenticeship Focusing on Web Development and Graphic Design for the Trans Community.

06/13/2014

A 16-year-old transgender girl has been incarcerated in an adult men's prison for nearly a month — and she still hasn't been charged of a single crime.

05/29/2014

"The Transgender Tipping Point" -- Laverne Cox on the cover of TIME magazine!!

What a wonderful bday present! Yes today is my birthday and I am on the cover of magazine. I realize this is way bigger than me and about a tipping point in our nation's history where it is no kinger acceptable for trans lives to be stigmatized, ridiculed, criminalized and disregarded. This is for my trans siblings out there and for anyone who has ever been told that who you know yourself to be at your core is not legitimate. You are who you know yourselves to be.

05/19/2014

Photography by Jae-Young Son

05/17/2014

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2014/05/16/transgender-inclusion-in-sports/ via Stanford Athletes and Allies Together and The Stanford Daily

In this op-ed we raise issues relevant to trans athletes at Stanford and beyond. Formed last year, the student group Stanford Athletes and Allies...

05/02/2014

"It is highly likely that you, the reader of this article, hold socially liberal views when it comes to trans issues... Unfortunately, there is a mismatch between these positive attitudes towards trans students and Stanford community members’ skills and knowledge for actively supporting their trans peers."

SSQL's article in today's Stanford Daily calls on the community to build its capacity to to accept, affirm, and support trans students.

Transgender Awareness Week starts Monday.

We are extremely lucky to go to school on a campus where the majority of students don’t outright hat...

04/29/2014

Check out this incredible role reversal, which shines light on the strange and dehumanizing ways the media treats trans people!

"Do you have a va**na?" "I thought we were going to talk about my show..."

(Hint: to learn more about trans treatment in the media and to build skills, come to the Trans Awareness Week workshop at lunch on Thursday, May 8th)

Questions about a trans person's genitalia ultimately reduce a complex question of identity into one of physicality. Redefining Realness author Janet Mock gave Alicia Menendez a taste of what it's like to have your womanhood scrutinized.

04/15/2014

"Despite only making up 4-8% of the general population, LGBT and gender non-conforming youth comprise 13-15% of the juvenile detention population."

Yet another example of how there cannot be q***r liberation without prison abolition and the dismantling of the school-to-prison pipeline - which, of course, disproportionately affects those q***r and trans students who are of color and low income.

"Intersectionality" is not a buzzword, but a necessary framework for understanding structural inequality.

Despite only making up 4-8% of the general population, LGBT and gender non-conforming youth comprise 13-15% of the juvenile detention population (Angela Irvine, 'We've Had Three of Them').

Mass incarceration is an LGBT issue.

Download and share our new resource guide for advocates working to address issues and policies that affect LGBT people behind bars: http://bit.ly/1gOrJ04

03/10/2014

Check out this article which describes how media reporting on q***r rights victories often excludes trans* people and the role they play in achieving victories. In this case, instead of mentioning the transgender woman who brought the lawsuit and the effect this change will have for trans* people in relationships in Lebanon, most newspapers highlighted how the victories were brought about by and benefit "g**s and le****ns."

Even (and ESPECIALLY) in moments of triumph, we must be critical about whose voices we are amplifying!

LGBTQ rights supporters rejoiced on Thursday with news that homosexuality is no longer illegal in Lebanon. A court ruling abolished a case against an unna

03/04/2014

The Graduate Student Council ( GSC ), Stanford University has voted to fund a Stanford Anscombe Society event on April 4th and 5th. From their website, Stanford Anscombe Society "defines the family as one man and one woman bound together by marriage" and "promotes the idea that sexual integrity is necessary for this family unit to be successful."

Their event on April 4th and 5th will bring speakers such as Ryan Anderson, who has equated homosexuality to alcoholism and pe******ia and encourages conversion therapy and prayer to change an individual's sexual desires. Another invited speaker will be Robert Oscar Lopez, who has directly compared gay parents to slave owners. He has equated same-sex adoption to "... cultural genocide practices once used against Blacks and [Native Americans]." Due to last week's decision, these speakers will be partially funded by the Graduate Student Council, and all fee-paying graduate students.

The GSC has a funding policy which states: "The GSC will not fund events or activities that create an environment where a given segment of the graduate student population are made to feel unwelcome at the event due to religious, political, or other conviction."

Stanford Students For Q***r Liberation stands in solidarity with all graduate students who oppose the use of their money to fund these speakers, and all Stanford students whose identities are negated and attacked by this event.

02/18/2014

Make art with beautiful people!

Come make art and write poetry with us this Thursday @ 7pm! Featuring FRESH COOKIES