Pride Month 2021 ♥★
Dear campus community, June is Pride month, a celebration of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) communities. It is an occasion to recognize the struggle for equality marked by the Stonewall riots in 1969 and continues to this day. As such, this observance honors the contributions and sacrifices that the LGBTQ community has [...]
Pride: Bending the Arc of the Moral Universe ♥★✚
Dear campus community, This Pride month is like none other. COVID-19 has led to the cancellation of parades across the country in support of the LGBT community. Still, there is so much to reflect upon about how inclusive the United States is in 2020. In a landmark decision in Bostock v. Clayton County earlier this [...]
Office of Inclusive Excellence | Inclusive Excellence and the UCI Police Department ♥ ★ ✚
To the Anteater community: We are writing to announce several actions to further align the UCI Police Department with our commitment to inclusive excellence and confronting anti-Black racism. This commitment is grounded in a community where all expect equity, support diversity, practice inclusion and honor free speech. Realizing this commitment mandates a campus police department [...]
UCOP | A message from President Napolitano to the UC community about George Floyd’s death and related protests ♥ ★ ✚
To the University of California community: I write to share with you the statement of my outrage over the senseless and tragic death of George Floyd in Minnesota, and the many Black lives lost before him. Like many of you, I am incensed over the continued brutality against people of color in communities across the [...]
UCI Leadership | In Support of the African American Community ♥ ★ ✚
Dear UCI Community: We watched with shock and horror the video of a white policeman callously, even casually, kneeling on the neck of an unarmed and unresisting black man until that man was dead, while other policemen stood by and watched. This brutal and racist act was like something out of Mississippi during Jim Crow, [...]
Graduate Division | A Message for the DECADE Community on Behalf of Graduate Dean Gillian Hayes ♥★✚
Dear DECADE mentors and DECADE student community, I am writing to you today with a heavy heart and a humble request for your help in supporting our many students, post-docs, faculty, and staff who are struggling right now. As if 2020 wasn’t hard enough, this past week has pushed many past our limits. We [...]
Adding an LGBTQ+ focus to M.D. Training – UCI News – ♥ ★ ✚
Two UCI medical students who’ve benefited from donor support spearhead revisions to school curriculum that boost inclusivity by Christine Catlett, UCI | April 28, 2020 “Perhaps the greatest feedback I’ve gotten about these curriculum changes was when another medical student told me that because of our efforts, when they were treating a trans patient, [...]
Outsports: The Re-Education of Coach Russell Turner
Outsports: The re-education of coach Russell Turner Since the UC-Irvine basketball coach called a player ‘queen’ in the NCAA tournament, Russell Turner has educated himself and become a better person. By Cyd Zeigler@CydZeigler Sep 11, 2019, 7:00am PDT It wasn’t until the morning after his greatest triumph as a basketball coach that Russell [...]
LA Times: ‘Queering the Orange’ exhibit about county’s LGBTQ history opens at UCI’s Langson Library
LA Times: ‘Queering the Orange’ exhibit about county’s LGBTQ history opens at UCI’s Langson Library The curators of the “Queering the Orange” exhibit in the Langson Library at UC Irvine are, from left, Kelsey Brown, John Renaud and Josh Hutchinson. (Scott Smeltzer / Staff Photographer) By Lilly Nguyen Aug. 1, 2019 10:58 AM A [...]