Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

The GenderYOUTH Spring 2007 campaign Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes will focus on issues of masculinity, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture and the larger American society.  This campaign is built around the ground-breaking documentary film of the same name by director Byron Hurt. It is designed to help GenderYOUTH chapters ask broader questions about gender and race while building new partnerships and coalitions around the issues. Additionally, the campaign challenges record labels and music television networks’ current perpetuation of racist gender stereotypes by petitioning them to allow for a diverse range of gender expression of people of color in the hip-hop industry.  Check out the campaign!   

 

GENIUS Campaign

GENIUS (Gender Equality National Index for Universities & Schools) is a national campaign for the inclusion of “gender identity and expression” in non-discrimination policies and practices of colleges and universities.  Students are taking action against gender-based discrimination and harassment by raising campus awareness and support, educating school administrators, and demanding real change at the institutional level.  The struggle to change school policies is essential for the creation of safer learning environments where all youth are free to express themselves without fear or repercussion. Check out the campaign!

Drop the Labels Action Tool-Kit

Drop the Labels (DTL) helps students make schools and communities safer by educating peers, faculty, community members and elected officials about gender-based bullying and the role stereotyping plays in that. DTL challenges us to question how we use labels and generalizations to describe others and to confront the negative effects that labeling has on its targets.  Download the Tool-Kit!