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Participation Objectives: 1. Participants will gain knowledge regarding Young Queer Women and Sexual Health its herstory, current climate including struggles and victories; 2. Participants will be able to share their expertise and experiances as Young Queer Women and their allies; 3. Together participants will identify gaps in Young Queer Women and Sexual Health and create or share grassroots community and individual solutions to these gaps; 4. Participants will create a resource and guiding document for either a zine or video highlighting those identified solutions to educate and outreach to their own community regarding Young Queer Women and Sexual Health. Participant Engagement: Dialogue - Engage Participants in Herstory and Current Climate of Young Queer Womyn and Sexual Health Group Activities - Discuss gaps and solutions of Young Queer Womyn and Sexual Health Theater of the Oppressed - To express the experiance and expertise of young queer womyn and sexual health through body movement. Creation of Creative Media - Plan, Script, and Create video or zine highlighting participant identified solutions. Alternatives Proposed: 1. Have young queer womyn share their experiances and solutions to sexual health both medically and holistically to other young queer womyn. 2. Create a tool that can help have that information sharing of the solutions to sexual health specific to young queer womyn.
Strategies to Alternatives: 1. Create a culture of sharing information orally and through gifts of wisdom especially with young women - breaking that ageist idea that only elders can pass wisdom 2. Split the time in two with the first half addressing the topic and the second half constructing a tool with documentation of the address of the topic but most importantly with solutions. 3. Talk about competancey while addressing as many intersections of identities as possible - gender, race, power, class.
