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Session I: Saturday 9:00-10:30 am

ACTIVISM & POLITICS: "Writing for Social Change"

This will be a writing workshop that sees writing as a form of activism and calls on queers to raise their voices. Recognizing the role of writing in building a movement for social change, we will talk about writing as a weapon against invisibility and spend time on writing about the issues that are urgent to us.

Presenters: Amy Sonnie is a queer/feminist/writer/editor/activist committed to radical social change. She is editor of the queer youth anthology Revolutionary Voices and is co-founder of RESYST—Queer Youth Organizing for Radical Social Change. Diana Acevedo is a mixed-race Latina working for LYRIC (Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center) and RESYST.

Room: UCen Lobero