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Graduate students at the School of Communication started hanging up all-gender restroom signs in Annie May Swift Hall as an act of protest. They hope this can spur the University put pressure on the Evanston government to alter code number 2902.4.

Communication graduate students put up all-gender restroom signs, advocate for access

February 7, 2020

After a year of advocacy, Communication graduate students started hanging up all-gender restroom signs in Annie May Swift Hall as an act of protest. It’s not the first time that students have resorted...

The windows of the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center displays the faces of 22 transgender individuals lost to transphobic violence in 2019. A small group gathered at Norris University Center for Transgender Day of Remembrance.

MSA vigil memorializes deaths of transgender individuals

November 21, 2019

In 2019 alone, at least 22 transgender people — mostly black women — were killed due to anti-transgender violence, and two more deaths are still being investigated for discriminatory intent, according...

Defining Safe: Rainbow Alliance speaks on importance of pronouns

Defining Safe: Rainbow Alliance speaks on importance of pronouns

October 21, 2019

CASSIDY JACKSON: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Cassidy Jackson. Thanks for tuning in, and welcome to the sixth episode of “Defining Safe.” In honor of October being LGBT History Month, I talked...

The Gender and Sexuality Resource Center. Matt Abtahi, former interim director of DePauw University’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion, filled the assistant director role of Multicultural Student Affairs.

University fills seven-month vacancy for key administrator for LGBTQ students

October 2, 2019

After seven months without an assistant director for Multicultural Student Affairs, Matt Abtahi stepped into the position in September, filling a key role for LGBTQ students at Northwestern. The Associated...

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