AGE UP News & Updates

  At this First year session Race was the topic. First we started off with check in and how we felt like usual. Then Lisa brought out all of her fruits to demonstrate how race is similar to vegetables and fruits. It sounds complicated but it’s not that complicated. Race is like sorting vegetables, it’s…

Today’s (yesterday’s) session was really great! We opened the night with some mouth-watering chili and cornbread, and we all chowed down while we did a check in. Linda chose the question tonight—“If you were a book, what book would you be?” There was definitely a lot of confusion as to what exactly that meant, but we…

Written By Susan On January 7, Tiffany, Azia, Jhanelle, Hana and I went to visit Planned Parenthood to prepare to run an upcoming workshop on Sex Ed. At Planned Parenthood, we talked to 3 different sex educators, Teddy, Megan, and Becky, about methods to facilitate a successful workshop. Going into the meeting, we had absolutely…

January 3rd Burrrrrr! The first years and the other years came out for a scrimmage today while the sun was still out. Shortly after we headed to Pho Rainier for a soup feast!!! It was amazing how we all just ate, chatted, and took a very uh-maz-ing down the table photo with NO ONE cut…

December 21st After having the delicious shepherd tamale for dinner made by our wonderful food group, we had an activity where we talked about socio economic status. The room was split into two sides, half was agree and the other was disagree.  We started off with easy simple questions like “Did you go to a…

*Sorry folks we are bit behind, this post is from last Friday! Enjoy!* This week we focused on the importance of the things that people say about one another. Whether it’s on a social media website, behind their backs, or in front of their faces. A lot of things that the first years didn’t like were…

Hola age up fanatics! On Saturday December 8th we went on an incredible field trip to the University of Washington. We were joined by the lovely dream project. A group devoted to helping first generation students go to college. They specifically work in King county and help low income students. The AgeUp girls had the…

Tonight (last Friday) was an amazing night with the first years! We started off with FOOD! Yummy delicious tofu and vegetables were served, along with rice and fruits!!! After we were all stuffed, we checked in like usual. Going around we heard…”Man boobs, weirdos, murse, stupid, donk, stereotypes, muscles” all were under categories of men/boys, women/girls from a cool wordle…

Greetings human beings, today as returners we came together to define gender pronouns. Our facilitators, Hana K and Jude W started the discussion off with a funny, yet educational interview skit. For example, a few of the questions asked were – “What are the different gender pronouns?” and “How are the gender pronouns different in…

Well hello everyone! AGE UP is back again; back in action. Two weeks ago returners met up for their first Wednesday session to learn what groups we would be in: media, outreach, facilitation, fundraising, or cooking. Once finding out our groups we took the session to talk about or goals, projects and other adventures that…