OutWrite Newsmagazine

09/30/2024

The The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law just announced its awards for best legal scholarship about LGBTQ+ concerns! Swipe to get an overview of these groundbreaking and vital analyses of topics like q***rphobic content moderation and institutional transphobia. Without understanding how the law harms us, we can't fight to improve it 🏳️‍🌈

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09/03/2024

For Labor Day 2024, let's explore homophobia and transphobia in the workplace. Although it's illegal in the U.S. to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, over half of trans people and over a third of all LGBTQ+ people experience workplace discrimination for being q***r. This Labor Day, speak out about your experiences with q***rness in the workplace!

08/26/2024

08/15/2024

Learn about SB 1491, a pending state bill to require public colleges to designate a confidential point of contact for the LGBTQ+ community. While UCs and CSUs already designate resources for the q***r community (like the UCLA LGBTQ Campus Resource Center), nearly two million community college students would benefit.

Check out the action doc (bit.ly/3yxNdPG) made by Survivors and Allies UCLA to make your voice heard!

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08/13/2024

"Our poetry and dreams unlock those wells of power that can lead to true lasting action." Read about q***r liberation, prison abolition and the poetics of social change in "Poetry is Not a Luxury" by Mary Nassar on outwritenewsmag.org!

🎨: Soren Kaur
🖋️: Mary Nassar
✂️: Gwendolyn Hill, Emma Blakely

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05/05/2024

A joint statement from staff across ASUCLA Student Media organizations.

03/12/2024

“It is critical that we keep the only q***r intersectional yield program in the nation running strong” 🐾 Read about UCLA’s Pride Admit Weekend program () and how to help keep it alive in“Pride Admit Weekend Needs More Volunteers: Here’s Everything You Need to Know” by Jessica Rose (she/ her), link in bio!

🎨: Katie Fang
🖋️: Jessica Rose ()
✂️: Gracie Bitting (), Bella (.a.hou)

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02/07/2024

“The fact is: investors don’t find le****ns profitable — at least, those who are not written purely for the male gaze.”🎥 Read about WLW representation in mainstream media in “From ‘I Am Not Okay With This’ to ‘Everything Sucks’: A Lack of Le****ns in Media” by Emerie Avila (she/her), link in bio!

🖋️: Emerie Avila (.avila)
🎨: Catherine Zhang ()
✂️: Ariana Castro (.o2), Bella (.a.hou)

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01/01/2024

“Someone loves me deliberately." 🏜️ Read a creative piece about puzzling together one's trans body and falling into love in "A Jigsaw Puzzle Is an Act of Creation" by Emma Blakely (they/he/she), link in bio.

🎨: Brenna Connell ()
🖊️: Emma Blakely ()
✂️: Ariana Castro (.o2), Bella

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12/22/2023

“Looking around this room is such a testament to the fact that there are more of us than there are of them, and that love is a thousand times stronger than hate.” ❤️ Read about q***r icon Dylan Mulvaney’s perspective on community, social media, and living as your truest self in “Models of Pride Keynote Speaker Interview: Dylan Mulvaney on Trans Representation, Social Media, and the Power of Cringe” by Ava Rosenberg (she/they), link in bio!

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🖋️: Ava Rosenberg ()
📸: Ava Rosenberg ()
✂️: Zora Alexis (.lam), Emma Blakely ()

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12/01/2023

“It’s complexities mirror trans life in a way that other films simply do not”🪞Dive into a trans woman’s perspective on a controversial 1950s film in “‘Glen or Glenda’: Feeling Seen Through Art” by Juliet Clark (she/they), link in bio!

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🖋️: Juliet Clark
📸: Screen Classics
✂️: Michel W (), Bella (.a.hou)

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