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"Here are some ways you can celebrate !

What are some other ways you celebrate?

[id: Slide 1 - a light blue slide with a green, orange, and yellow butterfly and flower background. A white speckled box is in the center. Orange text reads, "How to Support and Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month. Save + Share." Below is a green arrow. Slide 2 - Graphics of six ways to celebrate Hispanic heritage, from left to right, top to bottom: A pink art symbol, an orange circle with a hand holding a heart, a book cover of The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonido Reyes, a violet, pink, and orange candle, a tamale, and a yellow light bulb. Text under each says, "Support Hispanic Artists; Donate Time/Money/Resources to Hispanic Orgs; Read Books by Hispanic Authors; Learn About Hispanic Traditions; Support Hispanic-Owned Businesses and Restaurants; Learn from Hispanic Educators."]

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We are super excited to share that we were featured in Philadelphia Gay News!

Thank you to Kailey Delayne for hosting the Erotic Fan Fiction Competition, Spaghetti Jane for the prizes and poster, Mace/Jojo and Renya for sharing their fanfics, and Digs for sharing your experience with the competition! We also want to thank Cartesian Brewing for hosting this event and give a special thanks to our very own Board Vice-Chair, Devon, for capturing the joy and pleasure at the competition ❤️

[id: a photo of Kailey Delayne standing in front of a group of people who are sitting. She is speaking into a microphone and reading off a piece of paper.]



Read the article here: https://epgn.com/2026/09/16/erotic-fan-fiction-competition-makes-space-for-sex-ed-and-queer-joy/

Slowly but surely these are becoming the official footwear of the YES! facilitator team. What can we say, we like cute supportive shoes?

want to sponsor a community-based seggs ed org?

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Happy National Hispanic Heritage Month! In addition to celebrating Hispanic culture, history, and identity, we also celebrate the people challenging oppressive systems, demanding respect, and fighting for autonomy for the Hispanic and Latinx community.

This year's theme is Unidos, somos más. Together, we are more. We must stand together to fight for the respect, rights, and autonomy for the Hispanic and Latinx community.

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We're back with more training opportunities!

Young people need information and skills regarding consent, bodies, gender, sexual orientation, pleasure, and more in order to thrive. But how do we teach these topics age-appropriately and engagingly for an elementary school audience?

In this interactive workshop, we will build skills and discuss techniques for teaching these topics for elementary school-aged children. Participants will practice using simple, age-appropriate language and designing play-based activities.

[id: A photo of Isy, our facilitator and Executive Director, reading to a group of children sitting on the ground. Below is a purple box with text that reads, "Building Skills for Teaching Seggs Ed in Elementary School; Tuesday October 13 7-8:30pm; Zoom." Below is the YES! logo and more text that says "PD Series." In the bottom left corner is a QR code that says, "Register here!"]

YES! wouldn't be what it is today without support from our volunteers. Volunteers table at community events, help with outreach, create social media posts, and help with research. We're so thankful for our volunteers for their dedication and commitment to our mission!

Do you want to help us bring anti-oppressive, consent-based, and pleasure-focused seggs education to the community? We have our next volunteer orientation on October 3rd from 10:00-11:00 AM. Take the first step to becoming a volunteer and fill out our interest form in our bio!

[id: Slide 1 - A light blue slide with orange text that reads, "All aboard!" Below is blue text that says, "New volunteer orientation: October 3rd, 10:00 - 11:00 AM. Interest form in our bio!" In the top right corner is a yellow sun. Along the bottom of the slide are blue waves and a ship. Slide 2 - Orange text reads, "All hands on deck! Volunteers help us with:" Below is a blue bulleted list: "Staffing and tabling at events; Sending outreach for fundraising; Creating social media posts; Data entry; Grant writing; Survey creation and research; and so much more!"]

Janielle and Lili led consent sessions for the Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade classes at Ludlow Elementary School! The kids were awesome - one told Janielle that she was "magnificent"!

[id: Slide 1 - A photo of Janielle, our facilitator, sitting in a chair and reading to at least 4 children in a classroom setting. There are large white posters hanging around the room. Slide 2 - A photo of Lili, our facilitator, standing and reading a book to a larger class. A few students have their hands raised.]

Welcome Phantazia (Tazer, they/them) to our Facilitator Team!

Tazer is an artist, facilitator, and programmatic strategist whose work is grounded in community-driven strategies for collective liberation. For more than a decade, they have worked across advocacy, education, community organizing, and cultural work to expand opportunities for historically marginalized communities.

Besides being a facilitator for YES!, Tazer currently works at GALAEI, a radical social justice organization serving and advocating for Q***r, Trans, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC) communities. Their work spans LGBTQ+ equity, racial justice, youth leadership, policy reform, and community engagement, including supporting youth-led efforts that contributed to the School District of Philadelphia’s adoption of Policy 252, which established protections for transgender and gender non-conforming students.

Channeling their support of the arts, Tazer has also collaborated with Mural Arts Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art on projects exploring racial inequity, housing insecurity, and community resilience.

[id: Slide 1 - A purple and orange ombre slide with curved text that reads, "Facilitator Highlight: Tazer Washington, they/them." A badge frame is in the middle with a headshot of Tazer, who has a shaved head with pony tail, blue eyeliner, and piercings. They are wearing a black top and smiling at the camera. Slide 2 - A purple and orange ombre slide with black text that reads, "I do this work because bodily autonomy is foundational to our collective liberation. Often, young people are left out of conversations and aren’t afforded the agency to name and advocate for what happens to their bodies. In a society that’s constantly telling us all how our bodies should look, function, behave, and perform, reclaiming agency over our bodies is one of the most revolutionary practices we can engage in."]

You don't have to be thin to be be worthy.

At young ages, we're taught which bodies are desirable, and which bodies should be changed. Oftentimes, the media portrays thinner, White, non-disabled, cis bodies as more desirable, creating pressure to change ourselves for the approval of others and contributing to low self-confidence, and self-criticism. What happens when the pursuit of desirability becomes an expectation?

Fatphobia intersects with racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, and transphobia. The bodies most often excluded from society's standards of desirability are often already discriminated against, setting unrealistic and impossibly narrow expectations of what it means to be desirable.

Fat liberation challenges the idea that your body has to be small to be desirable and worthy of bodily autonomy, love, respect, and pleasure.

Bodily autonomy means that YOU make decisions on YOUR body. Societal expectations are constantly shifting, but what stays the same? You.

Your body belongs to you, not society.

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