While discovering a lot about myself over the past few years, I was also learning about racism, civil rights, and the LGBTQ+ rights movements — current and historical.
It was during a project at school supported by World Savvy, a nonprofit that works with thousands of teachers across the country to prepare students for complex, real-world challenges, when I began to think about the intersection of the struggle for equality by race, gender, and sexual identity.
I realized that people are being oppressed locally and globally for things they cannot change, something that they are born with.
Near the beginning of the 2019-20 academic year, I noticed that my school wasn't having enough conversation on LGBTQ+ topics so I started a club for people.