Scholarship. Activism. Growth. Engagement.

SAGE is an academic and activist organization at the University of Texas at Austin supporting feminist/queer scholars and Women's & Gender Studies students.

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If you’re having a rough start to the week, remember that you’ve survived all the bad days before this! 🙅🏻🗓👏🏻🏅 http://ift.tt/2qIGzBu

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tabling!

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SAGE reps will be at the @utcwgs table during the Bloq Party today on the East Mall from 5-8pm!

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Love as Political Resistance: Lessons from Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler | Bitch Media

We don't learn to love in a linear path, from self to family to friends to spouse, as we might have been taught. We learn to love by loving. We practice with each other, on ourselves, in all kinds of relationships.

We don't learn to love in a linear path, from self to family to friends to spouse, as we might have been taught. We learn to love by loving. We practice with each other, on ourselves, in all kinds of relationships.

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beyondthestreets_final_small.pdf

26 ways to be in the struggle BEYOND THE STREETS!

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Relax. Take a break. You deserve it.

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Social Justice Must Be Complicated, Because Oppression Is Never Simple

There is no one-pager solution to systemic oppression.

Systemic oppression is built throughout all of our most important systems — our education system, our workplaces, our government, our arts and entertainment. It is in the air that we breathe and it is upheld with almost every action we take. That is how it has lasted so long.

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Safety Plan Template.docx

Safety and Wellness/Love Down Guide This guide is for the people who love a Trans or GNC Youth and for Trans GNC Youth to have a proactive plan that is grounded in their self-determination and agency in how they want to address bullying, prevent harm, and also receive love and care. Reminders tha...

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We Need More Than Self-Care; We Need Healing, Too

Black folks have always faced an existential dilemma in the U.S. The constant drum of violence on our bodies and our dignity leaves an impression on our collective psyche that we too seldom acknowledge.

The subject of healing can feel very abstract. Healing, to me, describes the ways that we restore our well-being. Self-care, in contrast, describes the ways that we maintain our well-being. Healing is much more focused on identifying and addressing root causes. By analogy, it is the difference between a doctor prescribing a medication for pain, which is self-care, and confirming a diagnosis of the illness causing the pain at your office visit and prescribing a treatment, which is a form of healing. Healing, according to traditional medicine, is about understanding and treating the root.

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How To Be Wrong – The Establishment

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be better?

We are all wrong about a lot of things a lot of the time. All of us. We can be wrong because we didn’t consider all the facts. We can be wrong because we misinterpreted a situation. We can be wrong on purpose or on accident. We can be wrong because we were told something that was untrue and we believed it — be it about culture, history, statistics, or anything else. We can be wrong because the definition of what is right has changed (for example, with language that we use that was once deemed appropriate, and is no longer).

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How to Practice Self-Care During Your Job Search

Love yourself even while in transition.

In order to be successful and really thrive in this life, we all need to practice some form of self-care. This becomes increasingly imperative in times of crisis and survival (say, after losing a job or while desperately searching for a new one). Coincidentally, it’s in these times that we’re least likely to prioritize our own health and well-being.

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On Being a Queer Black Woman in Academia

A Black woman's experience navigating academia via a private, white-majority institution.

Audre Lorde, who you will encounter time and time again throughout your career will call to you during your reading for comprehensive exams. She will meet you where you are, and you will hear her voice in your head, gently telling you to do better. She will remind you that “your silence will not protect you.” Her words will repeat in your mind until you realize how tightly your throat has clenched around all the words you ought to have said.

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Healing Justice Is How We Can Sustain Black Lives

We are literally – not figuratively – in a fight for our lives.

We heal so that we can act and organize.

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Despair is Not a Strategy: 15 principles of hope – Abby Brockman – Medium

If you’re out there trying to change your neighborhood, community, city, country, or the world then this is for you. In moments when…

“The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who have the guns and the money and who seem invincible in their determination to hold onto it. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, and patience.”

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34 Poets Of Color Summarize 2017 In Verse

If 2017 was a poem, what would you call it?

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How to Study or Methods of Learning

I work as a tutor for a year now, and I noticed that many students know only one way to study for an exam: flash cards. They come to me with a pile of hundreds of flashcards and tell me that this is the only way works for them. I probably could write another post about how much I don’t like flash cards but it’s a different story…

Here I want to list all kinds of study methods that I found helpful after three years in college

1.      Rewrite notes

Many professors now upload copies of the notes or PowerPoints. If they don’t do this, you can use your own notes or a student book. One of the study methods is to rewrite those notes. That doesn’t mean that you need to rewrite word by word, it’s the opposite. The purpose of this technique is to analyze the material, put it in your own words, organize it as you want, and then write it down. Never rewrite information when you don’t understand it, it defeats the whole purpose.

2.      Make diagrams, tables, and trees

You can’t use these visuals to study everything, however, they’re extremely helpful to remember complicated concepts and processes. I draw them in my notes and sometimes redraw them on a draft paper multiple times if a concept is very hard to remember.

3.      Use other visuals

If you can’t create your own diagrams, you can look for them on the Internet or use visual resources like Crash Course and Khan Academy

4.      Teach your friend

As a tutor, I teach many students.  Teaching others helps to remember any material and even understand it better. It works because you talk about a subject aloud and you force your brain to recall information as fast as possible. You don’t have to be a tutor to do this. You can teach anyone: your friend, sibling, mother, or you can pretend that you teach someone. This method is also great because it uncovers all hidden parts that you didn’t know you don’t understand/remember.

5.      Imagine what you study

Most people probably do it on an intuitive level, but there are some students that don’t do it. You can incorporate this method while you’re reading or rewriting notes. I always imagine different processes in my head. For example, how molecules collapse and interact with each other or how gases diffuse from alveoli into capillaries. I kinda create “a movie” in my mind. It’s fun!

6.      Read out loud

It doesn’t work for me, but I know it does for some.

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Climate change will threaten mental health, experts say

Experts are concerned about mental health issues linked to climate change, with studies showing a rise in factors such as depression, anxiety and aggression when people experience severe weather events.