October 20: Best Practices in Collaborative and Comprehensive Health Care for LGBT Youth and Young Adults

Kelly Kroehle, Director 
The Bryson Institute, Attic Youth Center

Tuesday, October 20, 2015   3:00 – 4:20 PM
Armitage Hall, 3rd Floor Lounge

A discussion of health issues relevant to the young LGBT community, social service and health care collaborations and best practices for LGBT youth and young adults, and future directions.

Cosponsors: Garden State Equality, Rutgers-Camden Committee on Institutional Equity and Diversity, Rutgers-Camden Health Sciences

October 27: Transgender Medicine, Discrimination, and the Law

Sherman Leis, Professor and Chair
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Director, The Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery 

Katie Eyer, Assistant Professor
Rutgers School of Law-Camden

Andrea Bowen, Executive Director
Garden State Equality

Jaymie Campbell, Professional Development Manager
Mazzoni Center

Tuesday, October 27, 2015   6:30 – 8:30 PM
Campus Center-South BC Conference Room

A discussion of transgender medicine, including guidance toward and performance of transgender surgery, discrimination and bias facing transgender people, legal constraints, and advocacy for removing medical coverage barriers.

Cosponsors: Garden State Equality, Rutgers-Camden Committee on Institutional Equity and Diversity, Rutgers-Camden Health Sciences

Reminder 2015: Celebrating 50 Years of LGBT History, Art, & Culture

On July 4, 1965, a small group of courageous LGBT activists picketed in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. Women wore dresses and men were conservatively clad in suits and ties so they would all appear “normal.” They carried signs that unashamedly demanded equality for gays and lesbians from a society that treated them as criminals … Continue reading Reminder 2015: Celebrating 50 Years of LGBT History, Art, & Culture

Women’s & Gender Studies Director Authors Book Examining Social Reform in Gothic Writing

These days, when one thinks of Gothic literature, pop-culture phenomena such as Twilight, True Blood and Harry Potter may immediately spring to mind. But in a literary sense, the heyday of Gothic writing was in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the works of luminaries such as Horace Walpole, Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe … Continue reading Women’s & Gender Studies Director Authors Book Examining Social Reform in Gothic Writing

International Day of Transgender Visibility

In honor of International Day of Transgender Visibility (March 31), CeCe McDonald will give a presentation at the Rutgers-Camden campus titled On Racism, Mass Incarceration, & Trans Liberation. CeCe was a political prisoner incarcerated for defending herself against a racist, transphobic assault in July, 2010. Supporters and activists in her home state of Minneapolis, as … Continue reading International Day of Transgender Visibility

Women’s History Month: Weaving the Stories of Women’s Lives

This year’s theme for Women’s History Month 2015, sponsored by the National Women’s History Project, is Weaving the Stories of Women’s Lives. Stories of the lives of women, individually and collectively, are critically important because they reveal exceptionally strong role models who share a more expansive vision of what women can do. The stories of … Continue reading Women’s History Month: Weaving the Stories of Women’s Lives