Wednesday, November 20, 2024
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Transgender Day of Remembrance and Resilience
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Feature by: Shelby Hearn, Director of LGBTQIA+ Student Services
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Each passing year, I find it more and more difficult to speak as an educator on Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). Yesterday morning, I read the Human Rights Campaign’s annual report (“The Epidemic of Violence Against the Transgender & Gender-Expansive Community in the U.S.”) and took down the numbers: 36 victims of fatal violence since Nov. 2023, 61% of those victims were trans women of color, 50% were trans Black women. The numbers began to blur with last year’s, and the last, and the last.
I want to tell you about Rita Hester, whose murder started TDOR and remains unsolved 26 years later. I want to show you how clearly the intersections of racism, sexism, transphobia and classism create the conditions in which this “epidemic of violence” continues to thrive. I want to talk about the resilience of trans, two-spirit and māhū individuals of color in the face of these unjust conditions. But it is a struggle. How do you begin to speak with political neutrality about people whose identities have been non-consensually politicized?
Read more.
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Today at 4:30 p.m. in the Third Space Center, LGBTQIA+ Student Services, the Third Space Center and the Queer & Trans Students of Color invite you to join a vigil and art-making event in observance of Trans Day of Remembrance & Resilience. Individuals are welcome to bring photos, portraits and other items to contribute to a communal remembrance altar. After the vigil, we will create art collectively envisioning a future where our trans siblings thrive, centering the lives, experiences and needs of trans, two-spirit and māhū individuals of color, whose communities are disproportionately impacted by anti-trans violence and restrictive legislation.
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Student Co-Authors Diabetes Research Article
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Maddie Sramek ’25 co-authored an article published on Oct. 30 in the high-impact, open-access journal Nature Communications. Sramek participated in the SURF program for ten weeks in Zong Wei’s lab studying the molecular mechanism of Type 2 diabetes in the Division of Endocrinology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Scottsdale, AZ. The results of her experiments were included as part of a large project trying to understand how individual beta cells in the mouse pancreas try to cope with the metabolic stress of high fat diets. Dysfunction in these cells marks the beginning of prediabetes and is a step in the pathway to Type 2 diabetes.
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Benefits Open Enrollment Information Session
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Join Human Resources and Whitman’s employment benefits broker, Parker, Smith & Feek, for a joint presentation and Q&A webinar. The final virtual session will be held on Thursday, Nov. 21, at 8:30 a.m.
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Celebrating International Education Week: OCS Interns
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Of the 124 students who studied abroad last year, seven were hired as interns by the Off-Campus Studies (OCS) office. OCS interns assist with peer advising, present to various constituencies and act as ambassadors regarding all the benefits that study abroad can bring. Four interns are also international students at Whitman College! Wamuchii Mwangi ’24 studied Geology in New Zealand, Eyleen Menchú Tuy ’25 studied Politics in Seoul, Angel Yiu ’25 directed a movie in Prague and Val Hoxha ’25 honed her CS and software development skills in Budapest.
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(Photo: Ben Vernasco, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Brain, Behavior and Cognition) On Friday, Nov. 8, Biology majors Margaret Burgess, Isobel Meroe-Epes and Piper Rylander and Biology-Environmental Studies majors AJ Ferris and Morgan Sherwood showcased their thesis research on wildlife found in the nearby Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests to members of the Blue Mountain Audubon Society. The students engaged with an enthusiastic audience, fielding numerous questions and sparking lively discussions about their research and study species.
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Movement That Matters: Strength & Stretch
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Reid Lawn or Sherwood 114
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Hall of Science, Room 146
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Reid Campus Center, Room 207
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Reid Campus Center Basement
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