Speaking Queerly hosts Mallory Golski (she/her) and Isiah Harris (he/they) sit down with Lisanne Ball (she/her), Kaleidoscope Youth Center’s QTPOC Community Care Manager, for a discussion about identity and intersectionality, the College Board’s recent release of its Advanced Placement African American studies curriculum, Black and queer trailblazers who we all should know more about, finding community and more.

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