Cis/trans girls and women of color in education are often faced with body policing, profiling and discrimination in the classroom, workplace and in policy. In this breakout you will be able to share your experiences in our education systems from K-12 to higher education.

We will examine systems of housing and gentrification and how they uniquely impact the health and well-being of girls and women of color in the Bay Area. We will examine and hold accountable what conventional data platforms and policy makers fail to understand and account for in policy making and city planning: the ways in which housing insecurity creates disproportionate impacts on the experiences of intergenerational stress, trauma, and decreased life expectancy for girls and women of color.

In the United States, cis and trans girls and women of color, particularly Black girls and women, experience higher rates of interpersonal violence and are more susceptible to police profiling and arrests than their white counterparts. Girls and women of color respond to such circumstances by creating and employing a complex set of survival mechanisms, even as their efforts to survive are often criminalized and punished in turn. In this breakout session, participants will share and examine the experiences with different types of violence (e.g. interpersonal, institutional, and intimate) against cis and trans girls and women of color, including their visions for change.

Women of color often suffer with mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health issues in silence while being culturally and systemically neglected as they fulfill their expected roles as ‘super women’. This breakout session will look at how our systems and relationships can be changed to create health and healing for the women in our communities.