Sveriges Förenade HBTQIA+-studenter (SFQ) Information

Sveriges Förenade HBTQIA+-studenter (The Swedish Federation of LGBTQIA+ Student Organizations) is a national federation for LGBTQIA+ student branches throughout Sweden. SFQ was founded in 2000. SFQ is a queer feminist organization believing in an intersectional approach to work against discriminatory structures. The overall aims of SFQ are; strengthening the local organizations in the work for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex rights, educating on LGBTQIA+ issues and heteronormativity in higher education, and political lobbying on a national level. As of 2009 there are 18 branches and the number of individual members in the federation amounts to more than 1000, spread all over Sweden. The SFQ work includes educating on LGBTQIA+ issues at universities and university colleges, fighting heteronormativity within the academic sphere, in both the educational contents as well as in the study environment. VISION “The association works to improve the situation for homo- and bisexuals as well as transgender and queer people who are studying at Sweden’s higher education institution. The association works to counteract discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and / or gender expression and gender identity. The association works to problematize and counteract heteronormativity in higher education and educate and create debate and discourse about its consequences for the studies and the study environment. " MISSION To achieve this goal, we work through five distinct strategies. These strategies are study environment, quality in education, research, international cooperation and legislation. Only through commitment and purposeful work of all of these five strategies we can achieve our purpose. VALUE SFQ supports the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and the fundamental freedoms. SFQ actively dissociates/distance itself from all forms of discrimination. SFQ shows solidarity with other movements that operate in the same sp