Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 07:44:27 -0800 From: jessea@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Jessea Greenman) Subject: Need interns Please share with any and all queer university students. Thanks. SUMMER INTERNSHIPS Summer internships available with Project 21 (brochure follows, below). 10-20 hours per week (UNPAID). Students (preferably graduate) could get independent study credit, though, no doubt, through their own institution. We campaign for educational equity for LGBT people through curricular POLICY reform, preferably at the state level. We intend to influence State Bds. of Ed. and State Depts. of Ed. and their policies. Our current project is to complete an organizing manual which will enable interested activists around the country to do this work by providing information on the issues, the players, the procedures, and the resources available. Much of the information for the manual has been gathered. The work still remaining consists largely of putting material together in an appropriate conceptual design, actually writing up the information, and contacting local activists around the country for verification of accuracy and their own comments/feedback. Applicants must have strong writing and analytical/synthetical skills. Successful candidates will work with two men and one woman, largely out of the home office files of the woman, who lives in North Oakland. Much of the work will be done on the Macintosh. All phone calls, postage and copying costs will be paid by the project. Send letter and resume (electronic replies fine) to: Jessea Greenman Co-Founder, Project 21 ph/fax: 510-601-8883 586 62nd St. Oakland, CA 94609-1245 ----- Project 21 Prospectus PROJECT 21: A NATIONAL LESBIAN, GAY & BISEXUAL ALLIANCE FOR CURRICULUM ADVOCACY. PROJECT OF GLAAD/SFBA. Western Region: c/o Jessea Greenman Jessea's phone/fax=510-601-8883 email Project 21 is an informal, national alliance of organizations and individuals working to ensure that fair, accurate, and unbiased information regarding the nature and diversity of sexual orientation is presented to America's youth as part of public school education. Project 21 also strives for inclusion of long-censored information regarding the same-gender orientation of significant historical and cultural figures in course content throughout the public school curriculum. The organizational nexus of Project 21 is GLAAD. It began when GLAAD/SFBA was joined by the Bay Area Network of Gay and Lesbian Educators (BANGLE) and the Gay and Lesbian Youth Advocacy Council of San Francisco to launch Project 21 in 1990. Project 21 pursues a proactive agenda to improve the treatment of lesbian, gay and bisexual persons in educational systems at all levels of society. Advocates for Project 21 provide testimony before state and local boards of education, inform the public about educational equity issues, and furnish various resources for addressing lesbian an gay subjects in the classroom. Project 21 members call for an end to the censorship of information about our communities in textbooks, course content, resource materials, and library offerings associated with public education. Project 21 members believe that elementary and secondary curricula should include: -Fair and accurate information about sexual orientation in sex education, social studies, humanities, and family life classes. -Information about the historical and continuing contributions of lesbian, gay and bisexual people to art, language, education, science, sport, etc. -Discussion of the lesbian/gay liberation movement and the history of the struggle for gay, lesbian an and bisexual equality in the United States and throughout the world. -Documentation of significant social, legal and historical events, including the National Marches on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979, 1987, and 1993; the Stonewall Resistance of 1969 and 25th Anniversary commemoration in 1994, and the struggle for privacy and civil rights via the courts, in particular Bowers v. Hardwick, the Gay Olympics case, and the cases having to do with the rights of gays and lesbians to serve in the Armed Forces. I support your efforts! Please send more information about how I can become a part of this work. (Please print) Name_________________________________________________________ Address________________________________________________________ City________________________________State___________Zip_________ Phone?____________________________Fax?________________________ Email?_____________________________________________________ Please indicate whether you a) can supply curriculum resources ____yes ____ no b) are interested in receiving curriculum resources subject area_________________ grade levels________________ circle your reasons for needing: teacher? parent? activist? board member? student? administrator? c) are interested in volunteering/organizing with Project 21_____yes _____no Please send this back to Project 21, 586 62nd St., Oakland CA 94609-1245. *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CROSS POST WITH ATTRIBUTION Jessea Greenman Co-Founder, Project 21 ph/fax: 510-601-8883 586 62nd St. Oakland, CA 94609-1245