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Ravenclaw Thoughts, Ted Talks
Education is incredibly precious. When my grandfather came home from WWII, he was adamant on going to college. He used his GI Bill, got his books, and excitedly went to all of his classes. Soon into the semester, my grandpa realized it wasn’t easy to transition from surviving war to surviving class- he was already [...]
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Posted in Action, Connect, Empowerment, Harry Potter Alliance News, Human Rights, Philosophical Musings
Tagged HPA, Human Rights, news, tedx
Show Us the Report: A College Chapter Story
Oh, know the perils, read the signs, The warning history shows, For our Hogwarts is in danger From external, deadly foes And we must unite inside her Or we’ll crumble from within -The Sorting Hat, Order of the Phoenix The past two weeks, my college’s HPA chapter has been tabling for signatures for [...]
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Posted in Action, Chapters, Harry Potter Alliance News, Human Rights
Tagged Chapters, equality, Fair Trade, Harry Potter Alliance News, HPA, Human Rights
“Progress in Marriage Equality” 2.0
When I joined the HPA staff back in September, one of the first blogs I wrote was about my personal experience with marriage equality (you can read it here). I compared equality to a baby taking it’s first steps- excruciatingly slow. “It may take decades for it to reach it’s goal… But it will get [...]
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Posted in Human Rights, LGBTQ, Philosophical Musings
Tagged equality, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Marriage Equality
The Return of the ‘Kill the Gays’ Bill
Yep. It’s back: the Ugandan “kill the gays” bill that would make being gay a crime punishable by death. The return of this bill to Uganda’s Parliament is particularly painful the day after the Transgender Day of Remembrance, and to add insult to injury, they’re actually billing this as a ‘Christmas gift.’
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Posted in Harry Potter Alliance News, Human Rights, LGBTQ
Tagged Human Rights, LGBTQ
Redefining Tolerance
November 16th is the UN’s International Day for Tolerance, an initiative started in 1996 in order to educate people about injustice in the world and promote tolerance. However, in the past several decades we have redefined that concept. From “tolerance” as “the ability or willingness to tolerate something that one does not necessarily agree with” [...]
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Posted in Empowerment, Harry Potter Alliance News, Human Rights
Tagged day for tolerance, Human Rights, tolerance
Pride and Prejudice: The Problem with Banning Pride
After the Russian government banned the Moscow Pride for a century this August, one may begin to wonder: why would anyone want to ban the manifestation of love and diversity? If we are people who claim to value equality, then why do some appear to be more equal than others?
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Posted in Empowerment, Harry Potter Alliance News, Human Rights, LGBTQ
Tagged equality, Human Rights, LGBTQ, pride
National Coming Out Day!
It’s National Coming Out Day! In that spirit, I want to say a few things. Some of which, I’m sure you all know, and some of which you might not. Take a deep breath, and let’s go! My name is Quinn, I’m engaged to the most lovely woman in the entire world, I’m a role-play [...]
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Posted in Empowerment, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Philosophical Musings
Tagged Human Rights, lbgt, national coming out day
Progress in Marriage Equality
I have three mothers. My parents divorced when I was seven years old, and now, several years later, both my mom and dad are engaged to lovely women. They aren’t officially my moms- they’re not even officially stepmothers yet- but they feed me and care for me and love me all the same. Eventually- within [...]
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Posted in Human Rights, LGBTQ
Tagged Human Rights, LGBTQ, Marriage Equality
Equality in the UK
In the midst of the excitement surrounding Equality For the Win, exciting developments are already occurring elsewhere in the world for proponents of equal marraige. Perhaps one of the more exciting announcements in this direction was made a few weeks ago by the Scottish Parlaiment, which announced that they were adding a bill for the [...]
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Posted in Harry Potter Alliance News, LGBTQ
Tagged Human Rights, Marriage Equality, Scotland, UK
Equality For the WIN!!!
Calling all D.A. members! As of NOW, the HPA is hosting a super-mega-awesome fundraiser for Equality. We’re teaming with awesome people like you to raise $50,000 by September 8th. Not only is this an opportunity to donate to an awesome cause and help fight inequality issues all over the globe, you can also claim some [...]
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Posted in Harry Potter Alliance News, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Literacy
Tagged equality, Equality for the Win, EqualityTFW, Human Rights, Imagine Better, Immigration, Literacy, Marriage Equality
