STAR Freedom Schoool

ENTER STAR FREEDOM SCHOOL
ENTER STAR FREEDOM SCHOOL

STAR Freedom School is a national initiative developed by GSA Network to meet the urgent need for justice-centered educational spaces for trans, queer, and Two-Spirit (TQ2S+) youth. Grounded in the four guiding pillars of Devising Freedom—Homecoming, Truthtelling, Spiritsustaining, and Stargayzing—STAR Freedom School provides Black, Brown, Indigenous, and rural TQ2S+ youth with the tools, networks, and political education needed to thrive amid escalating social and legislative attacks.

In the face of rising anti-LGBTQ+ policies and isolation in traditional educational settings, STAR Freedom School creates transformative spaces for learning, community, and power-building. It builds on the long legacy of TQ2S+ youth organizing while innovating new strategies to meet today’s realities, offering a national hub for advocacy, care, creativity, and resistance.

  • “Young people are required by law to be at school. Does this mean that school will never be a site of liberation or that we must make it a site for liberation?”

    E.M. Eisen-Markowitz and Sally Lee, “Teachers Unite! Organizing School Communities for Transformative Justice” featured in Lift Us Up, Don’t Push Us Out: Voices from the Front Lines of the Educational Justice Movement

  • Maybe you want to launch a business

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  • Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more

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  • Maybe you have a creative project to share with the world

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Resources

Political education is one way that we sustain an intergenerational and multidimensional learning safety net. Organizer toolkits and facilitation guidelines from STAR Freedom School are available for download at starfreedomschool.org

SFS Curriculum: Community Care
SFS Curriculum: Community Care
SFS Curriculum: Community Care

SFS FIELD ORGANIZING FELLOWSHIP

The STAR Freedom School Field Organizing Fellowship trains a cohort of young TQ2S+ adults and fellows across the nation. Hosted by partner organizations within the National Association of GSA Networks, our cohort is set up to directly practice the basebuilding and campaign work that is focused on in trainings. The fellowship program is cosponsored by Transgender Law Center and National LGBTQ Task Force.

SFS POP-UPs

The multidimensional nature of STAR Freedom School allows for anywhere, anytime to be the moment where learning and running can happen. By utilizing curriculum toolkits and facilitations guides avaiable for download on STARFreedomSchool.com, you can bring political education to your school or community event.

 

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