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The School Girls Deserve
Creating Safe and Supportive Schools for Girls and Gender Nonconforming Youth of Color
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Girls for Gender Equity
The School Girls Deserve Creating Safe and Supportive Schools for - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The School Girls Deserve Creating Safe and Supportive Schools for Girls and Gender Nonconforming Youth of Color Girls for Gender Equity 2 School Pushout is: Anything that prevents or gets in the way of a young person completing their
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School Pushout is:
Anything that prevents or gets in the way of a young person completing their education. More specifically, the practices, policies, and actions that render them vulnerable to significant danger and undesirable outcomes.
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The Gender Bread Person
Identity Expression Attraction Sex
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Choose One.
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6X to receive
- ut-of-school suspension
4X arrested in school
Morris, Epstein, & Yusu 2017
10X to be disciplined in school
Crenshaw, Ocen, & Nanda (2015) Crenshaw, Ocen, & Nanda (2015)
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Whose safety?
School Safety Agents 5,200 Guidance Counselors
2,850
Social Workers
1,193
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Where can we be safe? Where can we be free? Where can we be Black?
- Solange
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In elementary school, people would catcall me in the halls, and make sexual comments. I didn’t report it though because I didn’t want to make a fuss over it.”
Zora, 10th grader, Manhattan. 11
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1,100,000,000
Students in NYC Public Schools
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Title IX Coordinator
1,700
NYC Public Schools
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Who’s ready to change this?
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...Only speak from that space in the margin that is a sign of deprivation, a wound, an unfilled longing. Only speak your pain. bell hooks
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Youth Visions for our School Communities
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Vision 1: Affirming Curriculum
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Vision 2: Stronger Support Systems
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Vision 3: End racist and sexist discipline practices.
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Vision 4: Resources to get their needs met .
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Your Turn.
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Action 1: Save the Federal Guidance on School Discipline
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Action 2: Join the trauma-informed schools for girls of color learning network
Visit: schools4girlsofcolor.org
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Action 3: Join the Dignity in Schools Campaign
https://dignityinschools.org/about-us/become-a-member
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Action 4: Get to know the Discipline Code aka “The Blue Book”
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Action 5: Familiarize yourself with :
- Respect for All
- Dignity Act
- Title IX
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Action 6: Read the Transgender Student Guidelines
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“ All that you touch you change All you change changes you.”
Octavia Butler
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Let’s Discuss!
Questions?
Brittany Brathwaite, MPH, MSW Girls for Gender Equity research@ggenyc.org