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College tour guest post: The luck of the draw

This is a guest post from Kirstin Rower, the student panelist for tomorrow’s Feministing: Offline and Unfiltered event at UC Merced. Kirstin is a UC Merced sophomore and the president of University Women of Merced Network (UWMN), the campus feminist organization. She intends to major in performing arts while simultaneously kicking some anti-choice butt. Find out more about Feministing’s upcoming California events here.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I didn’t pick my college because of free condom handouts or the huge array of pamphlets in the health center. Maybe some of you had that in your heads as you were finalizing that statement of intent, but I’d venture a guess that most prospective freshmen have bigger things ...

By Sarah • 12 years ago

Campus Sexual Assault Activism: Link Overload

I can’t even wrap my head around everything that’s going on right now. So many students doing awesome work, and in the midst of it all SAFER has endorsed the Campus SaVE Act (more on that soon). It looks like Sexual Assault Activism Month is going to end on a number of high notes. Just look at all of this:

Washington University, Stanford University, Brandeis, and Swarthmore all made policy changes in light of the OCR “Dear Colleague” letter, sparking some campus dialogue on the issue. UMass and the University of Vermont are making some important changes as well.

After three years of investigating, student journalists at the University of ...

I can’t even wrap my head around everything that’s going on right now. So many students doing awesome work, and in the midst of it all SAFER has endorsed the Campus SaVE Act (more on ...

By Sarah • 13 years ago

Pledge to Make Your Campus SAFER This Sexual Assault ACTIVISM Month

For the past ten years, April has been known as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This year, SAFER decided we wanted to take a slightly different approach. We’re recognizing this April as Sexual Assault ACTIVISM Month, and we’re asking students and their allies to join us in pledging to take concrete steps toward holding their schools and communities accountable for preventing, reducing, and responding to sexual assault on campus. And because we know ya’ll are already busy, we want to reward your action with some awesome prizes.

Here’s how it works: Students, alumni, and other student allies like parents, faculty, and campus staff can pledge to one or multiple SAAM actions on our pledge page. These actions include:

Participating in ...

By Sarah • 13 years ago

Pledge to Make Your Campus SAFER This Sexual Assault ACTIVISM Month

Here’s how it works: Students, alumni, and other student allies like parents, faculty, and campus staff can pledge to one or multiple SAAM actions on our pledge page. These actions include:

Participating in ...

By dena • 13 years ago

Pushing for Transgender Rights on a College Campus

My best friend in college is transitioning. He first came out as transgender to our close friends at the end of the spring semester of last year. He performed a piece in front of the incoming class of 2014 (about 750 people to be exact) about being a trans man on our campus. This led me to think and write about: how do you help trans-identified students on your college campus and what can you do?

Does your campus have gender-neutral bathrooms or housing? At Colgate, our only gender-neutral bathrooms can be found in the Center for Women’s Studies—no where else on campus can these restrooms can be found. What must it be like to be trans-identified and be forced to ...

By Wagatwe • 13 years ago

Late Intro from Another SAFER Blogger!

Hello everyone! I am going to be one of the Feministing Campus bloggers and in honored to have this opportunity. Life circumstances made my premiere a bit delayed, but I am glad to finally be here.

I am one of Sarah’s co-board members at SAFER; I do a lot of work for the org that involves meeting & working with student activists across the country, which has been an amazing opportunity. I actually first got involved with campus activism when SAFER came to Tufts University when I was a student there. After they came for an organizer training a few friends and I started our own student group on campus to change the ...

Hello everyone! I am going to be one of the Feministing Campus bloggers and in honored to have this opportunity. Life circumstances made my premiere a bit delayed, but I am glad to finally be ...