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TransHarvard hosts forum to make trans students visible

Student leaders, staff discuss new Gender Sexuality Resource Center

Many students, like Communication senior Jo Scaletty, came to Northwestern looking for people who can understand challenges that can come with having queer identities.  “I feel like I have a perception that queer people just kind of find each other,” Scaletty, who is also external president of Rainbow Alliance, said. “I think it’s sometimes bizarre...

Are Northwestern's issue-based task forces accomplishing change?

When reviewing Northwestern’s biennial senior survey with the Division of Student Affairs, Assistant Vice President for Inclusion Lesley-Ann Brown-Henderson noticed Black Students were less satisfied with their undergraduate education than their peers. However, the data did not specify why. “If we were going to try to improve something, then how would we know what to...

The Daily Northwestern | 'You have to make a choice': Non-cisgender students still struggle to find gender-affirming on-campus housing

Northwestern must implement all-gender bathrooms now, some faculty say

City policies and a lack of University action have put the push for universal all-gender bathroom access on hold — and some Faculty Senate members emphasized at a Wednesday meeting that Northwestern must act now.  A Gender Queer, Non-Binary and Trans Task Force report published in winter 2020 recommended ensuring access to all-gender bathrooms to...

Gender-Queer, Non-Binary, and Trans Task Force members reflect on demands to Northwestern

Twitter's Head of Diversity on Making Pride a Year-Long Exercise

LGBTQ+ affinity groups serve faculty, staff and law students

After years of scattered affinity groups and a pandemic that forced community members apart, LGBTQ+ faculty and staff at Northwestern established Out Network Evanston in 2020. Out Network Evanston has since amassed over 100 members. The organization recently submitted paperwork to the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion seeking recognition as an official affinity group at the University. Like OUTLaw, an affinity group exclusively for Pritzker School of Law students, Out Network Evanston provides space for NU faculty and staff who identify as LGBTQ+ to build social and advocacy networks.  Matthew Abtahi, assistant director of Multicultural Student Affairs, is a founding member of the Out Network and currently sits on its leadership council. They said the council wants the organization to accommodate the diverse and varied experiences of LGBTQ+ staff at the University. 

In for a renewed fight? Why some LGBTQ+ rights advocates are nervous about the new Supreme Court

× In for a renewed fight? Why some LGBTQ+ rights advocates are nervous about the new Supreme Court By Crystal Paul, The Seattle Times Published: December 28, 2020, 6:00am Share: 2 Photos CfuICfUve already been discriminated against in a manner that was supposed to be illegal,Cfu said Dorian Taylor, a paralegal with the Lavender Rights Project, a legal advocacy organization for the queer and trans community. CfuI donCfUt feel protection or comfort within the law.Cfu (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times/TNS) Photo Gallery SEATTLE — When Tacoma resident Dorian Taylor heard the Trump administration had removed protections from discrimination for transgender people in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in June, Taylor, a Black trans person, decided it was time to get gender-affirming surgery because he didn’t know how difficult it might be to do in the future.