We’re excited about our new more visible space in the Student Center, across the hall from the Joyce Michaelis office of Global Engagement. Just a few more days before we relocate and expand!
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Ryan Sallans to Present “FTM: Scouting the Unknown” presented by GAP, Office of Diversity, Inclusion
Wednesday, September 16 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Callen Conference Center
The Gender Advocacy Place and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion are bringing to campus Ryan Sallans to present “FTM: Scouting the Unknown.”
Sallans is a public speaker, diversity trainer, consultant, publisher and author specializing in health care, campus inclusion and workplace issues impacting the transgender community, as well as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQIA) community. After his appearance in the documentary Gender Rebel featured on MTV’s LOGO network in 2006, he began traveling to universities where he shares the story of his transition from female to male. His story is told with an intermixing of humor and intricate clinical details surrounding the transition process. Sallans’ presentation is an important opportunity as our campus community lifts up the core value of diversity this year.
#LoveWins during Student-Faculty Collaborative Research in D.C.
Kaitlin Beck and Dr. John Spilker, Professor of Music and Gender Studies, received a Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant that took them to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC. The Supreme Court is a 10-minute walk from their research site, so there they stood when the Supremes made history and announced marriage equality for all this morning. Spilker commented that “the energy was so beautiful: you could feel courage, compassion, and connection in the air.”
NWU student Kaitlin Beck and Dr. Spilker, Professor of Music and Gender
Being Transgender in Nebraska: Wednesday, Dec. 11, 4-5:30
Ryan Sallans The Gender Advocacy Place is pleased to welcome Ryan Sallans, who will present “Being Transgender in Nebraska,” Wednesday, Dec. 11, 4:00-5:30, in Callen Conference Center, Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Ryan is a national speaker, diversity trainer, consultant, and author who will speak about his transition from female to male and how to help foster a transgender-friendly community.
Fulbright Grant Will Send English Professor to India
We could not be more proud of our very own Dr. Gerise Herndon, Chair of NWU’s Gender Studies Department! Dr. Herndon received a Fulbright Specialist Grant and will be teaching Feminist Theories in India next fall!
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