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Queer Youth Aotearoa <Queer-Youth>

"Queer - Inclusive of all sexual identities and attractions to humans."

	March Queer Youth Update	253 días hace
	He ika kai ake i raro, he rāpaki ake i raro As a fish nibbles from below, so an ascent begins from the bottom – success depends on sound planning and doing the groundwork Tēnā hoki koutou i ngā āhuatanga o te wā. Anei te panui mō ngā takatāpui taiohi o te motu o te Roopu OUT THERE! The Queer Youth Update is all about PLANNING this month – where to from here. HOT OFF THE PRESS: Media Release on recent BEHAVIOUR SUMMIT http://www.outthere.org.nz/home/ KAHA ’07 – We Need Your Photos! For those that went to KAHA - Yes, we know you took hundreds of pics of you and your friends. If you’re happy for them to go on our website or in our Hui Report please email them to us. Thank you! Also, as you know many people were recording people and parts of the Hui. To hear yourself and others, listen to: oAccess Radio podcasts of several interviews and Alison Laurie’s queer history presentation oRadio NZ Te Ahi Kaa programme THIS Sunday 15th March, just after 6.00pm – in te reo Māori about Takatāpui for the podcast after the show. No Funding For OUT THERE! Our funding finishes on 30 June 2009 and the best we can hope for is a skeleton project until more funding becomes available. Thank you for the letters we’ve received so far – if you want us to continue, please write a letter of support to us. Of course we’re not taking this lying down, not even gracefully on a chaise lounge, so we held a ‘Where To From Here’ strategy hui with reps from Rainbow Youth (Auckland), Q-topia (Christchurch), School’s Out and Wesley Community Action (Wellington). The main points from the hui were: oUsing a Youth Development framework so queer youth know what’s going on and get to have a say about it oKeeping in better touch with each other across the country oDeveloping and increasing queer youth groups through support and training oLiaising with other agencies/organisations such as the National Youth Workers Network Association and CYFFS to take responsibility for diversity and queer issues. Detailed notes will be included in the Hui Report Elizabeth is compiling. Email Elizabeth at elizabeth@outthere.org.nz for more information. Youth 2007 & the National Queer Youth Day of Action OUT THERE! commissioned the University of Auckland to produce a report on same-sex and both-sex attracted young people from the Youth 2007 research on 10,000 school students nationally. Since the draft statistics are not looking so flash we’ve decided to take a strengths-based approach and create a National Queer Youth Day of Action during Youth Week, May 2009. We will convene a national training workshop for representatives from queer youth/diversity groups from across Aotearoa who will then go out to run workshops in their own areas. More details to come. Email Elizabeth at elizabeth@outthere.org.nz for more information. Spreading the Love at Te Matatini Te Matatini National Kapa Haka Competition is the largest Māori gathering in Aotearoa. Thousands of people came to watch the top 36 kapa haka groups battle it out. OUT THERE! shared a stall with NZAF, Family Planning, Te Puawai Tapu and Te Aitanga a Hauiti Hauora to promote diversity and safe sex. Elizabeth distributed about 4500 of our new Takatāpui resource which was a very positive start to her work in reducing homophobia and transphobia amongst Māori. Rainbow Youth Dancing with the Stars! Rainbow Youth is the selected charity for Tamati Coffey and Samantha Hitchcock for this season of Dancing with the Stars on TV ONE, Tuesdays at 8.30pm. Congratulations – the boy can move!! To support the wicked work Rainbow Youth does in the Auckland region and co-governing of OUT THERE! text Tamati to 8981 or phone: 0900 89 815. For more information check out www.rainbowyouth.org.nz. Curious TXT is rockin’ We’ve had a phenomenal response to the TXT service provided for queer and ‘questioning’ youth that have questions on sexuality and gender. Check out our latest release http://www.outthere.org.nz/home/ If you or anyone you know has any questions they would love answered, text 3535 and the keyword ‘curious’ and any question on gender or sexuality and OUTLine NZ will reply within 48hours. TXT ‘join_curious’ to receive Queer Youth TXT Alerts. Milk scores two Oscars!! If you haven’t seen the film Milk then you’re really missing out! Filmed on location in San Francisco, Milk is Gus Van Sant's account of the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the USA, who was assassinated by another politician. A phenomenally inspirational film for all queers and activists alike! Check out Sean Penn (who plays Harvey Milk) receiving his Oscar! "If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door." -Harvey Milk DOCNZ Festival on now! The DOCNZ Festival kicked off a couple of weeks ago from which there are some awesome queer movies to check out! To have a look at their line-up check out http://www.docnz.org.nz/2009/ The DOCNZ Festival 2009 has finished in Auckland, however is on in Wellington 12-22 March, and Christchurch and Dunedin 26 March to 5 April. BULLYING STOPS HERE: Pink Shirt Day successful! Pink Shirt Day was a day to stand up and say that as a society, Aotearoa is not going to tolerate bullying! Considering the two weeks SS4Q (Keeping Schools Safe for Queers) had to initiate the campaign, Pink Shirt Day drummed up whole lot of interest, and significant curiosity from the Rainbow MPs at Parliament. To check out some of the positive response to Pink Shirt Day check out the NZ Pink Shirt Day site http://www.pinkshirtday.org.nz/ We hope to make Pink Shirt Day even bigger and better next year! New queer youth group kicks off in Dunedin Same-Difference is the brand new group in Dunedin and is facilitated by the PFLAG youth coordinator and Youthline community education volunteers. The coffee group started on Friday the 20th of February, and will continue on every 3rd Friday of the month. It’s open to queer and questioning youth, their friends and family. The coffee group is an unstructured informal space where youth can socialize, which will be facilitated by the PFLAG youth coordinator and Youthline community education volunteers. The Same-Difference group happens the first Friday of every month, and is specifically for queer and questioning youth 20 and under. The group provides an opportunity to get together and discuss things that interest queer youth, develop a sense of community, meet new people, and offer peer support. We are trying to expand our Queer Youth Update contacts so please encourage your networks to sign up and for those of you that are existing recipients to please update your details at http://www.outthere.org.nz/stepout.htm Me mutu pea i konei. Noho mai rā i roto i ngā manaakitanga katoa. Enough from us, look after yourself and we’ll catch up soon! Nā māua noa, nā Laressa māua ko Elizabeth If you wish to unsubscribe from the Queer Youth Update, simply do so by reply email with unsubscribe in the subject line, no hard feelings. www.outthere.org.nz
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