Join us on June 23 for a film screening

We invite you to join us for a screening of A Queer Endeavor's new documentary, Reclaiming the Narrative, on Sunday, June 23 from 2-4 p.m. at the Longmont Museum.

. This event will engage audience members in discussion as we make sense of what the voices in the film raise and how we might create schools as places of possibility for all students. It will also include a talkback from film producers and insights on the current sociopolitical climate as it relates to LGBTQ+ students in Colorado and beyond.

Learn more and register

Educator Institute for Equity and Justice

A Queer Endeavor’s annual Educator Institute for Equity and Justice in Education (EIEJ) is a 2-day professional learning experience aimed to support K-12 educators and youth-serving adults to learn and enact equity and justice-focused practices.  Sessions will focus on anti-racism, abolitionist teaching, gender and sexual diversity, bi/multilingualism, equity in rural communities, supporting first-generation and undocumented students, critical dis/ability studies, trauma, and healing-- among others and their intersections.

Stay tuned for future institutes!

Past events

  • June 2022: Rosé party: Pride month benefit at Odell Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado. 

  • November 2021: Five of the Educator Intitute for Equity and Justice team members spoke at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Ed Talks

  • July 2021: Our first Educator Intitute for Equity and Justice in Longmont, Colorado

  • July 2019: An evening with Andrea Gibson, a benefit show at Odell Brewing Co in Fort Collins, Colorado. 

  • June 2019: Two-day LGBTQ-Inclusive Educational Practices Institute in Â鶹¹ÙÍø, Colorado

  • March 2019: One-day LGBTQ-Inclusive Educational Practices Institute in Greeley, Colorado

  • June 2019: Two-day LGBTQ-Inclusive Educational Practices Institute in Â鶹¹ÙÍø, Colorado

AQE Publications & Features

If you want access to any of these articles, please contact us.

2023

  • By Amber Carlson and Elise Ertl

2022

  • Meyer, E.J., Leonardi, B., & Keenan, H.B. (2022). Transgender students and policy in K-12 public schools: Acknowledging historical harms and taking steps toward a promising future. Â鶹¹ÙÍø, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved August 5, 2022 from publication/transgender

2021

  • Leonardi, B. & Staley, S. (2021). Cultivating a Queer mindset: How one elementary school teacher is ‘rattling common sense.’ Teachers College Record Volume 123 (7).  ID Number: 23784
  • Leonardi, B., & Moses, M. S. (2021). Understanding democratic education policy queerly: Toward a queer democratic framework. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 29(90).
  • Leonardi, B., & Farley, A., Harsin Drager, E., & Gonzalez, J. (2021). Unpacking the T: Understanding the Diverse Experiences Trans Students Navigating Schools. Berkeley Review of Education, 10(2). . Retrieved from
  • Farley, A. N. & Leonardi, B. (2021). Beyond bathroom bills and the gender identity debate: Complicating the policy conversation about supporting trans students in schools. Educational Policy, 35(2), 274-303.