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DAY 1: Introductions, Gender & Sexuality Workshop, and Drag!

QSA Staff and trainers started our day by welcoming campers one by one into the Texas State University Dorms - our queer home for the next 4 days! From San Antonio to El Paso to Houston to Austin and on, youth from around the state gathered in preparation for what will be an exciting, radical, and trans*formative experience! After collectively establishing group ground rules we began our workshops with "QSA History." Campers learned of the struggles folks have endured in the last century to fight for QSA club and LGBTQ youth rights, including local adversities and accomplishments, as well as the distinctions between activism and advocacy in the QSA world. Congrats to AJ for leading the wonderful workshop. Our next workshop engaged campers in discussion on Gender and Sexuality; its definition, social, cultural, and political context, and dismantling our personal perceptions. Through various images, challenging questions, and fab facilitation, campers challenged one another to break down institutional binary systems of male vs. female, straight vs. gay, or in other words "the norm," and dived into understanding inclusive (and at times complex) language that truly represents our diverse communities. Congratulations to Emily and Jordan for their excellent work leading the workshop! After a filling dinner and bonding long walks across TX State campus, we gathered for a galactic queer-tastic Drag workshop! We learned to tie ties, apply make up, bind, tuck, and ultra f*%&k gender. So many laughs, so much learning. Congratulations to Eli for leading the bad ass workshop!! (for more information on drag education and performance visit the following link: http://www.kingsnthings.org/) To conlcude the evening campers participated in constructing postal service characters! Don't know what this is? You'll find out at the end of this camp report back, meaning you might want to keep reading our blogs each day!

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