Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will learn about the herstory, definitions and values of Sexuality Education Justice and Reproductive Justice and what the young people at COLOR and their partners are working on;
2. Participatns will be able to explore the different intersections of age, race, gender, power and other identities and how they pertain to sexuality education, health, and justice;
3. Participants we leave the workshop with a short term plan on how to individually push issues of sexuality eduction in their schools, with family and friends and through their own organizing work.
Engagement:
Dialogue - Herstory and Background
Group Activities - Why Young People should be leading this part of our social movement?
Theater of the Oppressed - Our relationship to sexual education, health, and justice and our identities.
Self Reflection Activities and Planning - How will you do your part whether broad or specific when you get back home?
Alternatives Proposed:
1. Young people to lead sexuality education justice movement with the help of their allies.
2. Approach the issue of sexuality education justice through grassroots community youth organizing as well as policy changes at the school, local, state and federal level.
3. Begin and continue safe and productive dialogues and conversations at home, school, and work.
Strategies to Achieve Alternatives:
1. Understand the role of allies and make sure that young people own their responsibility and passion by having them lead.
2. Identify what areas young people are passionate about and where allies work. Guide youth in organizing by their callings. Some more inclined to presenting within schools others are inclined to testify on behalf of communities to push policies.
3. Participants will create a plan to be word warriors and spread the message and values of sexuality education justice.
