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Youth United Enhancing Merced’s Parks

July 18, 2025 /

Youth United is working on a campaign to enhance parks in Merced, making them more accessible and enjoyable for the youth in our community. Read More

    LGBTQ+ Art Pieces Spring Collection 2025

    July 16, 2025 /

    Summer collection of LGBTQ+ art created by Merced County Youth! Every season, We’Ced showcases local artists’ pieces on LGBTQ+ experiences.Ā  Read More

      Merdead Times – 2025 We’Ced Publication

      June 2, 2025 /

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        Queer Youth Content Pieces Winter 2025

        April 7, 2025 /

        This piece represents what it’s like to live with semi-strick parents, even despite being a legal adult, and having your ‘wings’ that will take you places, it’s like the important feather’s of the wings used to fly are built with toothpicks. Read More

          Support LGBTQIA+ Youth Workshops

          February 5, 2025 /

          On Friday, November 1st, 2024 there was a workshop held at The Merced Library about how to support the LGBTQIA youth in this city and county. Read More

            Queer Youth Art Showcase Fall 2024

            February 4, 2025 /

            Liliana Figueroa-Larios is a queer artist whose works examines the idea of remembrance and how we as a society have purposefully forgotten the intersectional history of women, lesbianism and the LGBTQ+ community as a whole. Read More

              My Life Skateboarding

              December 10, 2024 /

              Skateboarding has been a part of my life since I can remember. I started skating in 2016 at the age of 11. Read More

                The Decay of Merced Parks

                December 10, 2024 /

                Youth United is a youth-led policy advocacy program in the YLI Merced office that focuses on social and racial justice. Read More

                  Overlooking Pink 2024

                  November 14, 2024 /

                  Hooray! We’Ced’s 12th edition of our yearly publication, Overlooking Pink, is out now! You can check it out right here, or you can download it to check it out later. Read More

                    My Father

                    July 18, 2024 /

                    The last time I saw my father was the night I almost lost my mother.  I try not to think of that night because it reminds me of my father.  Read More