LGBTQ Activism
Racial Justice
Environmental Justice
Miscellaneous
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What does LGBTQ stand for?
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer
100
What is Racial Justice?
Racial Justice is a vision to change society to get rid of racial hierarchies, or racial power structures.
Racial justice imagines a world where people of all races have the resources, power, and self-determination to fully thrive.
100
What is environmental justice?
Environmental justice is about making sure everyone has access to healthy food, clean air and water, and safe homes.
For example, environmental justice tries to combat environmental racism. Environmental racism is the choices and policies that result in the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on people of color.
100
What is an activist?
An activist is someone who sees something that needs to be changed in their community and stands up for what is right.
There are many types of activism- protest, art, writing, speaking, organizing people in your community, etc.
200
What does it mean to be transgender?
If you're transgender it means that you don't identify with the gender that people thought you were when you were born.
200
Rosalie Fish, from Muckleshoot Tribal School in Auburn, WA, showed up to a track meet with a red hand print covering her mouth and the letters MMIW down her right leg. What was she raising awareness of?
This was to raise awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). This is how indigenous women go missing or get murdered at very disproportionate rates. The red handprint symbolizes the voices of these women being silenced.
200
With FEEST, a food justice organization in King County, what changes have youth been able to make in their communities?
In Highline and Seattle Public Schools, youth leaders are organizing for more fresh, delicious, and culturally relevant foods on the lunch menu.
They have had incredible success working with administration to get new items like squash curry, lentil stew, pho, Caribbean chicken, and others.
200
In 2020, Kennedy Catholic High School in Burien two teachers were fired when they after announced their engagement to same gender partners. What did students do in response?
Students at the school organized a protest in support of their teachers.
300
What is the African Queer Youth Initiative?
A network of queer youth activists building visibility and strategic networks supporting the LGBTQ youth movement in Africa
300
Marley Dias is the teen founder of ______________ — a movement to collect and donate books with Black female protagonists.
#1000BlackGirlBooks
300
Xiuhtezcatl /shoe-TEZ-caht/ Martinez is a 19-year-old Indigenous climate activist, hip-hop artist, and influential voice of the global youth-led environmental movement. Who was he inspired by?
Inspired by his mother’s own activism, Martinez has been a part of the climate justice movement since he was six years old.
300
In response to a devastating shooting at a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, 11 year old Naomi Wadler and a friend organized what?
A walkout at their elementary school. She later spoke at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington DC. She continues to be an activist against gun violence today.
400
17 year old Taylor Amari Little created Queer Ummah, a project designed to highlight experiences of LGBTQ Muslims, on what social media platform?
Tumblr
400
Since April 2012, many King County youth and other residents have spoken out against building a new $210 million youth jail and family court buildings.
What do people want the money to be used for instead of a youth jail?
They want the government to spend that money on resources to help youth instead of places to cage youth.
In July 2020, after years of community protest, government official Dow Constantine committed to closing the youth jail by 2025.
400
17 year old Autumn Peltier is a water protector. What does water protector mean?
Autumn Peltier is chief water commissioner of the Anishinabek Nation.
Water protector means someone who defends the rights of people to have access to clean, safe, reliable drinking water.
For example, in the United States, water protectors protested against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016, because the pipeline would leak and contaminate water for communities.
400
Zyahna Bryant is a student activist and community organizer who founded BSU, a club that serves Black students, at her high school. What does BSU stand for?
Zyahna Bryant founded the Black Student Union at her high school.
500
Sage Grace Dolan-Sandrino is a transgender Afro-Latina. After transitioning at 13 and experiencing discrimination from her school and other students, Dolan-Sandrino became an activist for trans student rights. She worked organizations like the National Center for Transgender Equality.
What does the National Center for Transgender Equality do?
Advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance of transgender people.
500
What did Thandiwe Abdullah and their community work to change in their school district?
Thandiwe and the Youth Vanguard have worked to protect students in their community and have successfully removed random searches from the Los Angeles Unified School District in 2019
500
When Mari Copeny was 8 years old she became an activist to help her community's ______ crisis in Flint, Michigan?
Water Crisis.
She began by writing a letter to President Obama to draw attention to the water contamination problem in Flint Michigan. She is now 16 years old and has since raised money to bring clean bottled water to flint, create and distribute water filters, and projects for kids. 
500
What is food justice?
Food justice means everyone has fresh, affordable, and healthy food. It means the food is produced in ways that are not harmful to the earth, people, or animals.
