CIED Resources

Events Around CUNY

• 3/18: CUNY Graduate Center - roundtable discussion of Talia Schaffer’s new book, Communities of Care

This year the National Day of Silence takes place on April 22, 2022.

The Day of Silence started as a day of nonviolent protest at the University of Virginia created for a class project. It focuses on supporting LGBTQ students, elevating their voices, and supporting student activism. In the early 2000s, GLSEN, a nonprofit organization founded more than 25 years before and focused on LGBTQ students, stepped in as the national organizer.

CUNY Community

• LGBTQ Studies Resources
• LGBT Social Science & Public Policy Center
• CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies

LGBTQ Community

• The Center for Black Equity
• National Black Justice Coalition
• Black Trans Advocacy Coalition

First Nations, Indigenous, Native American

• NativeOUT
• We R Native

Latinx/a/o

• Galaei Facebook
• TransLatin@ Coalition
• Unity Coalition
• Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement

Asian, Asian American Pacific Islander, Desi American (APIDA)

• NQAPIA (National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance)
• The Visibility Project
• DeQH Desi LGBTQ Hotline for South Asians

Muslim 

• Muslims for Progressive Values
• Coming Home to Islam and to Self

Mental Health and Wellness

• CUNY SPS Counseling Services
• The Trevor Project
• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network

Parents

• My Kid is Gay
• The Trevor Project

Educators

• The Safe Zone Project
• GLSEN
• The Trevor Project 
• We R the Youth
• 30+ examples of cisgender privileges
• 30+ examples of heterosexual privileges

Additional Resources

Everyday Feminism
Looks at issues such as racism, privilege, homophobia, and disability through the lens of modern feminism.

American Institute of Bisexuality

Bi.org
An organization dedicated to making the LGBTQ community as well as the rest of the world more bi-inclusive.

Transwhat
Explains terms and misconceptions about the transgender community and how to be a better ally.

Trans Lifeline
Crisis support for and by the trans community.

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X and Alex Haley. Hailed by the New York Times as "Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book." This book is the electrifying story of Malcom X's life in his own words.
• The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation 
by Anna Malaika Tubbs. New York Times bestseller tells the story of the extraordinary women who raised these civil rights heroes; women whose lives spanned Jim Crow, the Great Migration, the civil rights movement, and the specific prejudices Black women faced.

Juneteenth History

• Juneteenth: What You Need to Know | History - Marcia Chatelain, Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. Professor Chatelain, a historian of African American life and culture, talks about the history of Juneteenth and common misconceptions
• National Museum of African American History and Culture (Smithsonian)
• The White House Proclamation - Recognizing Juneteenth as a national holiday
• New-York Historical Society - Juneteenth Legacy of Frederick Douglas (video)
• New-York Historical Society - Online event explores how some African American New Yorkers would have celebrated the end of slavery (includes registration link)

Around CUNY

• The Importance of Juneteenth in Higher Education - 2021 Recorded discussion between Ted Widmer, professor and historian at Macaulay Honors College, and Dara N. Byrne, associate provost and dean at John Jay College
• Bronx Community College - Historic information and background information on the Juneteenth flag

Around NYC

• NYC Parks - Events throughout the city, including a screening of Oscar-winning The Summer of Soul
• NY Public Library Juneteenth Storytimes - Videos of kid’s stories being read