Queering Climate Justice
This week, I traveled to the COP25 (25th Council of Parties) city-wide Global Climate Justice Summit in Madrid, Spain representing Orlando and QLatinx. I’m here with the Gulf South Rising delegation, an amazing group of frontline communities from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. We represent diverse identities of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and rural communities. Many of us are queer. We have diverse interests in plastics, water access, flooding, racial just
Undoing Racism and Building Health Equity
QLatinx and The Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond (Undoing Racism) presented an intensive workshop that utilized dialogue, reflection, role-playing, strategic planning, and presentations to analyze the structures of power and privilege and advance institutional change for racial and health equity. The process explored how people, programs and organizations can work together to elevate humanity while developing leadership and accountability to the mission, values, of r
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD)
March 20th is National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD), a time to raise awareness about the presence of HIV and AIDS in our Native an
Intersectionality: Building a Framework for Social Change
This morning QLatinx Executive Committee member Gabriella Rodriguez and Executive Director Christopher Cuevas co-lead a workshop for the City Year Orlando cohort on building an intersectional framework for addressing unconscious bias in the classroom and the community. To learn more about our social justice and diversity education programs visit our website at www.qlatinx.org/trainings and request a workshop from our team to help enhance your organization's diversity and incl
International Womxn's Day
On this day, we intentionally uplift and celebrate the glorious womxn and femmes that shape the movement for social equality and remind us that the work of empowering womxn, girls, and femmes must be intersectional or it is not feminism at its core. As part of our celebration of International Womxn's Day, QLatinx teamed up with incredible local organizations to host International Womxn's Day: Protecting Black and Brown Womxn, Femmes, and Girls alongside Organize Florida, Plan
Latino/x Organizations Say Basta! Enough!
QLatinx has joined national Latino/x civil rights and advocacy organizations across the country to call on members of Congress to recognize the humanity of our diverse immigrant communities who are seeking refuge at the US southern border. As Congress continues to deliberate and negotiate a government funding solution, we send a unified message, standing with immigrant communities and against funding for a hateful wall. We hope that hearing from so many Latino/x organizations
Official Response from QLatinx on President Trump's 2019 State of the Union Address
This evening, we stood shoulder to shoulder with community leaders, advocates for social justice and cultural transformation and members of our diverse and flourishing immigrant community in Orlando to watch the 2019 State of the Union. President Trump used this occasion to once again attack our most vulnerable communities, and demand billions of dollars to fuel his deportation machine and senseless border wall. In a time where LGBTQ+ Americans are watching our rights being r
Support for Fully-Inclusive Nondiscrimination Protections Reaffirmed
QLatinx has joined the Human Rights Campaign, the National LGBTQ Task Force, The National Center for Lesbian Rights, ACLU of Florida, Florida Trans Proud, and TransAction Florida as co-sponsors of Equality Florida's call for the passage of the Florida Competitive Workforce Act (FCWA), a fully-inclusive bill to explicitly ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. We support a fully inclusive Florida Competitive Workforce Act that explicitly protects L
Statement Regarding Restrictions on Transgender Troops in Military
We are deeply and unequivocally disappointed in the decision of the Supreme Court to lift the nationwide injunctions that had kept this admi
Annual QLatinx Familia Appreciation Brunch
Over the weekend I had the honor and joy of celebrating the incredible leaders that make the work of QLatinx possible through their inspired work throughout the year! We wouldn't have been able to accomplish our goals and achieve new heights without their guidance and dedication. They are the gentle streams of water that feed into the river that is our movement for racial justice and LGBTQ+ liberation. It is with a warm and open heart that I express how truly grateful we am t
