Worst case scenario: what do you do if you need to report a sexual assault on your campus? Do you know who to contact? Which department is responsible? Do you need to fill out a form? I was pleasantly surprised when a quick Google search of my campus website turned up a pretty direct link [...]
An Homage to Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh [PDF] If you’re asking yourself what in the world “cisgender” (often shortened to “cis”) means, then don’t worry. If you’re not familiar with the queer community, it can sound like an intimidating word, but it’s not! In the way that transgender can describe how someone’s gender identity [...]
Sexual assault is much more than just a women’s issue. Survivors of sexual violence can be male or female, straight or gay, young or old. Anyone can be a survivor. We also know that attackers have the ability to fit a range of descriptors. Despite this reality, sexual assault is still often portrayed as something [...]
Last week the Department of Health and Human Services released their annual LGBT Issues Coordinating Committee Report. The report outlines nine objectives for advancing LGBT health in the upcoming year. It addresses LGBT needs in areas such as health insurance coverage, discrimination, HIV/AIDS prevention, sexual violence and partner abuse, substance abuse, and research. The report [...]
Well, the vote is in and it doesn’t look so good. As I mentioned in my previous blog, people in NC voted yesterday on a marriage ban. Last night the constitutional amendment that defines marriage as the legal union between a man and a woman passed. Amendment One, or the Defense of Marriage Act, not [...]
Yesterday I was startled by a video posted by a young man in Kannapolis, NC. In the video he pulls out a shotgun and shoots a “No on Amendment One” yard sign while discussing how marriage is between a man and a woman. In the news, a preacher from Fayetteville, NC is urging his congregation [...]
This past Saturday, December 10, marked the 63rd annual celebration of Human Rights Day. Sixty-three years ago, the United Nations General Assembly passed the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. The declaration as summed up by the United Nations states that, “fundamental human rights and freedoms all men and women, everywhere in the world, are entitled, [...]
Yesterday marked the 2nd anniversary of Harvey Milk Day, and what would have been the 81st birthday of our country’s first openly gay politician. As a city supervisor for San Francisco, Milk successfully passed a gay rights ordinance that outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation, the first of its kind and a signifier of change [...]
Happy New Year ya’ll! 2010 was a whirlwind of ups and downs! Downs that included the constant attack on reproductive rights, especially abortion, the failure to pass the DREAM Act and the increase in teen suicides amongst LGBTQ youth. With Arizona leading the way on passing the most unequivocally racist pieces of legislation of 2010 [...]
Post by: Patrice Guillory On December 1st, the world will remember almost 60 million people have been infected with HIV and 25 million people have died of HIV-related causes since the beginning of the epidemic. Today, in many parts of the world, including the U.S., women have become the face of the disease. Women make [...]
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