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A local youth sports team is opening the door for LGBTQ+ youth in athletics, and they are doing it on wheels.
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A Santa Maria activist is banding together local youth to inform fieldworkers and their children about their rights. As the son of farmworkers himself, he says it's personal.
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Each year, Cal Poly students put their tractors to the test at the Cal Poly Cotton Rosser rodeo complex. Students bring their modified trucks and tractors to a dirt path to test whose vehicle can pull a heavy platform the farthest.
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The Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness has launched a campaign to address mental health and substance misuse among local youth.
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All are welcome at Let There Be Lesbians, but it's an intentionally sapphic space — one meant for queer, feminine energy.
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Japanese-American author Shizue Seigel has come back to the Central Coast decades after her family was pushed out by anti-Asian immigration laws.Now, she says she’s on a journey to expand the land’s historical narrative by holding writing workshops for creatives of all backgrounds to tell their stories.
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Having safe spaces is important for queer people of color to be able to live safely, comfortably and authentically. But what does it mean to be in a safe space? Reporter Erick Gabriel talks to LGBTQ+ people of color in SLO County about what it means to them, and how the community can go beyond safe spaces to create “brave” spaces.
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A 19-year-old man was shot and killed by an off duty police officer in Orcutt last month. Some community members say it reflects the ongoing criminalization of indigenous groups in the Santa Maria area.
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Workplace discrimination is a problem affecting much of the LGTBQ+ community. In this episode of In Between, we hear from Dale Morenx, a SLO resident who sometimes feels out of place as a queer person of color.
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There's an ongoing effort in SLO County by students, parents and some school district employees to make school a more accepting and safe place for queer students of color.
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The first story in our series In Between examines the systemic barriers that queer and trans people of color face in San Luis Obispo County. We hear from a trans student of color in Atascadero and other community members about what it feels like to be queer and a person of color in this area.
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There's an ongoing effort to preserve the stories of historic neighborhoods in Santa Barbara, led by curators from UC Santa Barbara. It's called the Santa Barbara Community Archives Project, and it focuses specifically on historically-underrepresented groups.