Out of Space
Julio Roman
Are you a safe space?
Julio C. Roman’s groundbreaking memoir and leadership guide for LGBTQIA+ advocates suggests that safe spaces are not rooms with four walls and a door. Safe spaces are people—leaders whose values, words, and actions invite and encourage every individual in their presence to express their fully authentic self.
Leaders embody those spaces physically, and they embody them on social media. They create them by sharing the values of worth, acceptance, and self-esteem with every life they touch.
But what happens when our safe spaces are violated?
What happens when the people we love, especially those who represent safety, are taken from us?
How do we deal with what we are witnessing, and where do we start picking up the pieces?
By sharing his own poignant struggle to overcome the emotional scars of violence and abuse, Roman demonstrates the critical importance of safe spaces for every marginalized voice.
Whether you’re a young LGBTQIA+ person, a community-based organizer or ally, an LGBTQIA+ rights advocate, a business leader, an HR representative, or anyone else who wants to create a safe space for others, Out of Space can help you learn how to do it—and what being a safe space truly means.
Press & Praise
Julio's approaches to social justice, public health, and project management are in a manner that is thoughtful and full of poignancy. His work is transformational in that his ability to decipher and analyze details results in thoughtful and efficacious outcomes.
Julio C. Roman's mission thrives in creating safe spaces and enforcing the importance of humanity. He also embarks on the principles of uniting the LGBTQIA+ community as a norm in all aspects of today's society.
The journey and discovery of intersectionality that exists in one world can be a lonely one. However, Julio meets you on that intersection of what it means to be Queer, Brown, and an Advocate and allows you a peek into what it means to be human.
