Sticks & Stones: Reclaiming Names That Were Used to Hurt Us

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Creative art project on canvas and poster to reclaim names used to offend the LGBT community. - Research has shown that LGBT high school students are 3-4 times more likely to engage in self-injurious behaviors like smoking, drinking, truancy, dropping out of school, or attempt suicide and develop anxiety and depression than their straight peers.  This is not due to their sexual orientation or gender identity/expression, but due to the real or perceived threats from a homophobic culture.  These threats sometimes are physical, but a lot of times, they are simply words, or names, that a ...

Read More re used to demean anyone not presenting in a specific traditional prescribed way.  Terms like Faggot, Lesbo, Tranny, and others can leave a scar that never gets healed as it might never be talked about.Well, Queery has created a project where LGBTQ folks can talk about these issues using "Stick

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