Jeffrey Chang
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Championing equality, Yale students demonstrate for inclusive policy
Mar 4th
Last night, after Yale University administrators backed down from a plan to implement gender-neutral housing for the 2009-10 school year, over a dozen students braved the freezing weather to stage an outdoor ‘Sleep-in’. Setting up tents in the snow and ice of Yale’s Cross Campus quad, with signs that read “The Only Gender Neutral Housing at Yale”, members of the group Students for Housing Equality at Yale tenaciously demonstrated the need for an immediate change in policy. “The sleep-in is meant to protest the type of metaphorical displacement [that the] LGBT community and allies, are faced by this decision,” Rachel Schiff ‘10, the LGBT cooperative coordinator told the Yale Daily News.
Update: To find out more about Yale’s gender-neutral initiative, check out yale.genderblind.org.
Activist Spotlight – Jan. ’09
Jan 15th
Emilia Dunham, Northeastern University ‘10
Major: Sociology
Minor: Women’s Studies / Law, Policy & Society
What motivated you to work on a gender-neutral housing campaign at Northeastern?
“Personally, housing has been a huge issue of mine since coming to college. I was vaguely aware of Gender Neutral Housing programs at other schools only after the middle of my first year. I realized the need for more options, particularly for transgender students.During the housing application process, I approached Residential Life about options for transgender students, and found they were remarkably limited. The next year I publically spoke about my housing experiences at a student/faculty panel I helped organize. By my third year, the issue of Gender Neutral Housing became a hot topic as it reached the Student Government Association (SGA).