Results for: be the change
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Yup It’s True, Trans and Queer Students Get Title IX Protections Too
“Title IX’s sex discrimination prohibition extends to claims of discrimination based on gender identity or failure to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity and OCR accepts such complaints for investigation.”
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Trans* Activists Degender Wesleyan Bathrooms, Face Charges and Fines
“We demand that Wesleyan University stop segregating bathrooms along gender lines and provide all-gender bathrooms in all buildings in the University.”
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Dean of Women’s College at Rutgers May or May Not Hate Lesbians
…which, if she does, would be super unfortunate for her, since Douglass is filled with a bunch of lesbians. I was one of them.
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Let’s Celebrate Our First Sunday Funday In A Post-DOMA World
Yes, we need to keep working. But can we fuckin’ party for a second please.
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Notre Dame’s Gay Students Asked to Be Chaste, Because Catholicism
Notre Dame has approved an LGBT student organization and the club must preach chastity for LGBTQ students. Which makes me think maybe we should take our gay money elsewhere.
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The Truth About Queer RAs
Hint: it’s not what The National Organization for Marriage’s Ruth Institute would like you to believe.
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Point Foundation Wants to Give You Money for School
Ali’s Team Pick: Point Foundation is the largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ students. If you’re going to be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program for the 2013-2014, you can apply!
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University of Iowa Brings Groundbreaking Gay Question to College Admissions
The University recently added an optional question on sexual orientation to their undergraduate application, as well as a non-binary gender option.
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Villanova Redacts Gay Performer’s Invite ‘Cause He’s Gay and They’re Catholic
“This is not my first time at the dance… It’s clearly homophobia and panic.”
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The Last Days of Gay Rutgers Student Tyler Clementi: New Questions, Some Answers
Dharun Ravi wants all charges against him dismissed — and the papers filed in his defense offer new insights into what happened to Tyler Clementi.
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Christian Colleges Find Christian Students Remain Gay Despite Christianity
Because gay Christian kids have got to go to college somewhere.
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Revolution Queer Style Now: Christian College Bans Students’ Gay ‘Zine
We talk to the queer vanguards of Harding University who made a ‘zine “to be a voice for the voiceless who are quietly dying inside the walls of our campus” and got banned by the administration.
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The “Lesbian Until Graduation:” Now A New York Times Most Emailed Article!
In today’s news, we find that the popular myth of college as a “hive of same-sex experimentation” could be wrong. In related news, some people are very confused by this and I have ~156 feelings about this whole THANG.
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Counseling Student Sues For Right to Disregard Science, Enforce Homophobia
A student at Augusta State University has sued the school because it has allegedly asked her to alter her Christian beliefs (i.e., not advocate gay conversion therapy) before allowing her to graduate from its counseling program.
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Colleges Making Fancier Gyms Instead of Smarter Graduates
Colleges keep building buildings and raising tuition, but who benefits? Katrina The College Runagay has feelings about college and Sarah has facts and together we have ourselves an article about student debt, generational job market issues, and you know, the point of college etc.
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Valedictorian Calls Out U.S. School System, Brainwashed Students, Herself
Erica Goldson, valedictorian of Coxsackie-Athens High School, used her graduation speech to deconstruct the institution rewarding her. Must read & process: “Now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave. I did what I was told to the extreme. While others sat in class and doodled to later become great artists, I sat in class to take notes and become a great test-taker.”
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U of Oregon Gay & Lesbian Student Alliance Office Vandalized, Neo-Nazi-Style
The University of Oregon in Eugene is one of this country’s most gay-friendly campuses, but this weekend vandals hit their LGBTQA office with swastikas. This comes amid growing controversy over The Pacifica Forum, a SPLC-labeled white nationalist “hate group,” holding its meetings on campus. We speak the University’s LGBTQA center volunteer coordinator about campus climate in the wake of the vandalism, and how she hopes this tragedy will provide an opportunity for the student body to open dialogue and inspire change.