Theme 1 Kickoff - Change and Development
Storyboard Description
Naba Mahmood and Swastika Rastogi of class 10 are creating their Change and Development story board on LGBTQIA+ acceptance and social movements.
Storyboard Text
- In eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, Same sex sexual behaviour and cross dressing were widely considered to be socially unacceptable and were serious crimes.
- Gays are sinners
- You still have a chance with god
- God hates faggots
- Frida Kahlo was a gifted painter and openly bisexual. She used her medium to depict taboo topics, like female sexuality, pain, and feminine beauty standards, primarily through self-portraits. She also honored indigenous Mexican culture through her art.
- Johnson was a key figure of the 1960s gay rights movement in the US and, as legend has it, threw the brick that ignited the infamous Stonewall riots, which were the catalyst for the movement and have inspired many Pride marches ever since.MARSHA P. JOHNSON
- Nkom is a human rights lawyer and LGBTQ activist from Cameroon, where homosexuality is still criminalized. In a country where police officer entrap members of the LGBTQ community through text messages and beat those they perceive to be gay, Nkom bravely fights for rights on behalf of the LGBTQ community.ALICE NKOM
- Laverne Cox, best known for playing Sophia Burset on Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, is a black, trans woman, the first trans person to be nominated for an Emmy, and a proud advocate for LGBTQ rights. Cox has been outspoken about access to health care for LGBTQ communities and has particularly championed the rights of trans people and people of colorLAVERNE COX
- “This feeling of true excitement and deep gratitude to have made it to this point in my life,” he says, “mixed with a lot of fear and anxiety.”“I felt like a boy,” Page says. “I wanted to be a boy. I would ask my mom if I could be someday.” ELLIOT PAGE
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