Bscape - Bucks Students for Climate Action

Today we are mourning indigenous lives and land lost, past and present as colonization continues. We also hold space for LGBTQ+ and disadvantaged youth, as well as those struggling with mental health, domestic abuse and family conflict, eating disorders and disordered eating, financial and food insecurity, and homelessness or displacement today and every day.

Last night, BSCAPE leader Sky M. presented to youth on the real, gruesome, and white supremacist history of Thanksgiving and why it’s a day to mourn, not celebrate. After a critical discussion about bias, education, and our responsibility to constantly challenge the white supremacist narrative, Rainbow Room youth wrote letters of solidarity to the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, direct descendants of the tribe colonized by Protestant invaders in the 1600s. Tomorrow, we will be sending these letters out to the Wampanoag Community Center in Aquinah, Massachusetts. If you missed the event and would like to add your own letter of solidarity and share how you’ll be acknowledging and sharing the real history this season and beyond, contact us via email or DM!

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🖤🤎❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 What’s happening at The Rainbow Room?!!

All youth 14-21 yrs are welcome. The Rainbow Room is Planned Parenthood’s program for LGBTQ+ youth and allies, with weekly youth meetings, Wednesdays 6-8pm, at our center in Doylestown since 2002. We proudly provide empowering and medically accurate, s*x education, advocacy, reproductive rights, support, friendship, activism, art, expression, healing, friendship, fun, food and massive LOVE.

COVID safety: We are returning to a MIXTURE of in-person masked 😷 meetings July 14th, 2021, using our outdoor or larger indoor space. Temperatures will be taken, and all youth must wear masks. Additionally please practice 6ft+ social distancing if not fully vaccinated. 😷 The plans are evolving daily as we update our health and safety plans, prioritizing everyone’s well-being and following the new and more contagious variants.

FIRST Wednesdays will remain virtual via Zoom. Email or DM us for registration information!

FOURTH Wednesdays: open to 12-21yr olds with programs geared to younger kiddos (guardian consent required for ages 12-13), plus PFLAG Bucks meets in a neighboring room to The Rainbow Room (contact them directly for confirmation on in-person/virtual).

Make sure to FOLLOW us for weekly and last minute updates and virtual/in-person changes on FB and Insta at PPRainbowRoom

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Thanks so much to everyone who attended our summit last night! We know that was a lot of important information to take in. You can review all the presentations on our Google drive!
bscape.org/learn

Links & Resources — BSCAPE - Bucks Students for Climate Action and Protection of the Environment The Bucks County Sierra Club provides updates and information about the state of regional and national affairs regarding climate change and environmental protections. It has been instrumental in the fight against ELCON and other projects that pose a threat to the environment and health of people and...

BSCAPE doesn’t typically endorse politicians, but we are so proud to make an exception for LARISSA HOPWOOD Larissa Hopwood for Doylestown Mayor!

BSCAPE organizers know Lolly through all the amazing work she has done for q***r youth in Doylestown and The Rainbow Room. Our leaders have worked with Lolly on anti-racism, anti-s*xism, and other intersectional social activist projects. We know that Lolly is a visionary progressive, an amazing parent, and a true leader with everyone’s best interests at heart. We have no doubt that as mayor, they will promote our values of environmental sustainability and social justice in Doylestown and beyond. Let’s go Lolly! ✊💚💙
Larissa 'Lolly' Hopwood for Mayor