Author: Kathy Fischer

Connecticut 2021 LGBTQ+ Community Survey

Are you a member of Connecticut’s LGBTQ+ community? Do you live in CT? Are you 18 years or older? Join the Proud to Count movement by filling out Connecticut’s LGBTQ+ Community Survey! The survey aims to 1) enhance our understanding of the number of people that identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community in our State and […]

Message from the Rainbow Center and ODI

March 29, 2021 Dear UConn students, staff, and faculty, I am writing to you today to update you that this past month there were two separate reported bias incidents targeting the LGBTQIA+ community on UConn’s campus. On March 16, an RA in Alumni Hall found images drawn on a dry-erase board in the lounge space. […]

The Body is Not an Apology: Radical Self-Love as Transformative Action with Sonya Renee Taylor

Join us for the closing event of Women’s Herstory Month! Co-sponsored nationally with the University of Virginia Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center, UMass Dartmouth Center for Women, Gender, & Sexuality, University of Iowa – WRAC (Women’s Resource & Action Center), Georgia College Women’s Center, University of New Mexico Women’s Resource Center, and Virginia Tech Women’s Center. […]

Women’s Advance – Spring Series

As a prelude to the annual Women’s Advance Conference, the Women’s Center will be hosting a series of workshops this spring that are designed to expand skills, increase knowledge, and enhance networks to promote a more inclusive and supportive working and learning environment.  Our theme this year is Forging New Paths – Manifesting Justice.   […]