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UP4Diversity Masterclass: How to get political
Many of the partners and people who have worked with UP4Diversity over the last two years, and especially the members of our European Network, are youth workers, teachers and academics. They all share a strong commitment to LGBT+ rights, and they all make efforts to advance the experience of young LGBT+ people in their schools, youth clubs and organisations. That's important, and the stories we have shared on this blog show that why it matters, and how it works.
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Roundtable 1 at our Final Conference
The Up4Diversity Final Conference took place in the KU Leuven facilities in Brussels on July 5. The following posts will summarise the main ideas from the diverse spaces that were organised, but we encourage you to check the original recordings of the conference once they are published on our YouTube channel.
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The key to success
...is manyfold. The second roundtable of the Up4Diversity Final Conference regarded successful experiences in different educational environments. We heard from teachers, educators, researchers, and students who all had different approaches to creating inclusion, acceptance, and room for diversity. A key factor in all strategies was a focus on creating awareness and on involving both LGBTIQ+ and non-LGBT+ people.
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Faster, higher, stronger – and gay… ?
IDAHO Day - the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia - typically delivers a mixed bag of feel good stories and worrying trends, progress and setbacks, champions and bigots. We learn a little more about bullying, discrimination and violence against the LGBT+ community, and about the importance of legal rights and protections. Those of us prone to existential musings might wonder what we are getting right, what we are getting wrong, what we could - should? - be doing differently. We indulge in the wins, and we despair at the continued vitriol and violence. We breathe a collective sigh at the sight of the mountain left to climb, readying ourselves to gear up and go again. Plus ça change, ... ?
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Final Conference July 5 – Brussels & Online
We are excited to invite you to the Up4Diversity Final Conference on July 5th. It will take place in Brussels but will have a hybrid format so that you can participate from your countries.
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Training in Bystander Intervention and the Dialogic Model to Prevent Violence Against LGBTIQ+ Youth (April–May, Online and Free)
Do you work with young people in formal or non-formal institutions? Do you want to learn evidence-based knowledge on how to help change their culture and move towards zero violence?
Whether you work or participate in a high school, a university, or an LGBTI, youth or leisure organisation, this training is for you.
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All Inc! Building LGBT+ friendly schools across Europe
UP4Diversity benefits from exchanges with its European Network and, through that, from exposure to projects that seek to promote awareness, understanding and acceptance of the LGBT+ community. One such project is All Inc!, an ERASMUS+ partnership coordinated by Maastricht University.
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Upstander Online Training (Ireland, March) to Prevent Violence Against LGBTIQ+ Youth
Do you work with youth in formal or non-formal institutions? Do you want to know how to help change its culture to walk towards Zero-Violence?
Whether you work or participate at a high school, a university, a youth, leisure or LGBTI entity, this training is for you! -
Afraid to be gay
At Centre for Digital Youth Care, where we work with all things youth-related in a digital context, we get letters upon letters from young people in vulnerable positions. Regarding loneliness, parents who don't understand, bodily insecurities, friends, school, crushes, you name it. Sex and sexuality are also popular topics, and over the past couple of years sexual identity has been taking up more and more space.
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Conference on Isolating Gender Violence (Monday 20, 16-21h CET)
Today we inform you of a virtual and open event next Monday of international impact, essential to all types of people and representatives (university faculty, students, non-university faculty, policy makers, educational communities and citizens in general) who dream day by day for a world free of Gender-based Violence.