Come with any questions you have for them! RSVP here by March 30. Sponsored by and open to all undergraduate students in Columbia College and Columbia Engineering, register for “A Night With Peppermint and Sasha” for this year’s International Transgender Day of Visibility, to hear from Peppermint and Sasha Velor about their drag, activism, gender identities, and more. Jamie and his daughter Ruby spread the message that every girl deserves to shine! Jamie and Ruby’s story has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, and The Lily. Join Columbia University Irving Medical Center Human Resources for an upcoming event sponsored by the LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group for a discussion with Jamie Alexander, Founder of RUBIES, a swimwear line for trans girls and nonbinary kids. UPCOMING EVENTS Maat 1:00 pm | Celebrating Trans Day of Visibility Transgender and Gender Expansive Health Care Services at ColumbiaĬolumbia Health offers a number of services for transgender and gender-expansive students. It also includes a specific section on trans resources.įaculty Development recently led a session on ways to support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and colleagues, and covers a range of topics including language, support services, and resources. In late 2020, the Office of the Provost published an LGBTQ+ Resource Guide and companion website, which serves as a comprehensive living repository of campus resources and relays recommendations for how everyone can be better, more visible LGBTQ+ allies.
The Trans Columbia page offers up-to-date policies, services and resources for Columbia's transgender community, including more information on the University's "preferred name" policy, housing options and more.Ĭheck out their resource guide for LGBTQ+ community members and allies who want to learn more. LGBTQ Columbia provides undergraduate students with LGBTQ student group advising, events, education, advocacy, and other services and resources to help all students explore and better understand diverse queer and trans identities, experiences, and communities at Columbia and beyond. Columbia | Office of Multicultural Affairs The Columbia Gender Identity Program provides compassionate, personalized, and expert care to children, adolescents, adults, and families across the gender and sexuality spectrum. Bockting spoke to Columbia News about his work, the great strides he’s seen in his lifetime and the importance of representation. The foundations of the feminist movement are not in the famous women propped up by American media, but in the everyday lesbians who have worked tirelessly and courageously in this movement, without any concern for men’s precious feelings.Dr.
Today is a great day to make lesbians visible, but so is every other day. LGBTQ is no less co-optable, under captalism and neoliberalism, than anything else, and it’s no coincidence that our individualistic, Americentric culture has chosen to center superficial, narcissistic, sexualized identities over the women who are actually challenging and fighting the status quo, day in and day out.
The lesbian is being rendered invisible - even actively erased.Īs the category of “woman” itself is being eroded into nothingness, it’s pivotal we remind ourselves that all that is covered in glitter is not gold. ( Compulsory heterosexuality, you are a wily old bastard!) We, as a culture, love to congratulate ourselves on our liberal “acceptance” and “inclusivity” of various marginalized identities, but refuse to even feign interest in lesbians (unless, of course, they are pornified for male titillation…) In this uber-progressive intersectional utopia liberals pretend we are living in, we are seeing a loss of lesbian spaces and attacks on lesbian culture. How much more threatening does it get?Īlas, these days, more and more women are choosing the the vague “queer” label instead of the more overt, woman-specific “lesbian,” leading to what Jocelyn Macdonald calls “the opposite of a critical mass.” Perhaps this is because they are told lesbianism is an old-fashioned relic of the “gender binary,” and that aversion to penis is bigoted. They challenge the root of patriarchy, heterosexist notions of “family,” and porn culture, simply by existing. The reason for that isn’t hard to identify: lesbians are women. Today is Lesbian Visibility Day, a good day to remember that the “L” in “LGBTQ” is probably the least celebrated and visible of all those ever-expanding letters.
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