Alecia Vasquez, El Inde Arizona The University of Arizona’s LGBTQ+ center this week will host its annual rainbow graduationto celebrate LGBTQ graduates. According to the event’s director Kristen Godfrey, about 40 students have registered toparticipate in this year’s 16th annual event, hosted by the LGBTQ+ center. The event will be from noon to 2 p.m….
Fifty years having locations for only one race was seen as segregation. Today, these so-called safe spaces are creating essential community for marginalized people to celebrate cultural and social values. Black, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander, Indigenous, LGBTQ and many other marginalized people create safe spaces and communities in academic institutions all over the country. Matthias…
Nationwide studies of sexual assault indicate that racial minorities, transgender people and people with disabilities are targets of sexual violence at greater rates than the general population. The studies, conducted at universities, health centers and hospitals across the nation, all support one emergent truth: that sexual violence, and the harmful psychological impacts of it, fall…
Transgender teens in Arizona face multiple obstacles when trying to receive adequate and knowledgeable health care. A lack of resources, combined with a lack of awareness of those resources, creates a difficult system to traverse. Some parents have taken it upon themselves to map out this nonexistent network that includes finding a counselor, pediatrician…
Fue en algún momento entre dejar la casa de su madre en Arizona y caminar hacia la parada del autobús en que se dio cuenta de la realidad: Ámbar Hough no tenía donde vivir. El Trastorno de estrés postraumático y el autismo de Hough estaban causando “demasiado drama” para su madre y hermanos. Las…
