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Roundtable Discussion Marks Continued Fight for LGBTQ+ Inclusive Housing

By Nola Goodwin February 23, 2024

The Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA), Queer People of Color (QPOC) and Georgetown University Pride (GU Pride) co-hosted the latest installment of ongoing talks about LGBTQ+ inclusive housing...

Leading International Scholars Investigate LGBTQ+ Laws, Gender Violence

Leading International Scholars Investigate LGBTQ+ Laws, Gender Violence

By Clayton Kincade October 6, 2023

International scholars discussed the legal and human rights challenges to improving the state of LGBTQ+ rights as they pertain to international law in a collaborative event among three Georgetown departments. The...

First Graduate Students Receive Certificate in Gender, Peace, Security

First Graduate Students Receive Certificate in Gender, Peace, Security

By Grace Buono and Samantha Sinutko February 18, 2021

The first students to complete Georgetown University’s graduate certificate in gender, peace and security graduated in December 2020.  The GPS certificate, which is issued by the Georgetown...

VIEWPOINT: Expand Inclusivity of Mr. Georgetown

VIEWPOINT: Expand Inclusivity of Mr. Georgetown

By Kate Clark November 12, 2020

Every year, clubs at Georgetown University nominate senior male members as competitors in a pageant known as “Mr. Georgetown.” During my first three years at Georgetown, I heard of the show’s admittance...

BROWN: Embracing Uncertainty in Gender

BROWN: Embracing Uncertainty in Gender

By Jordan Brown February 7, 2020

If you’re on social media sites like Tumblr, Twitter or Facebook, you’ve probably seen queer and trans people and allies make jokes about how “gender is fake.” The joke is based on the fact —...

BECOMING U: Interrogate Your Internalized Biases

BECOMING U: Interrogate Your Internalized Biases

By Nicole Marion September 13, 2019

As I’m walking back from the gym with my friend one humid March afternoon, our conversation about which boys we think are cute leads to a startling confession; my friend admits that she often feels pressured...

TALATI: Rereading Eden

TALATI: Rereading Eden

By Haley Talati September 6, 2019

As a freshman at Georgetown University, it took me several months to come to grips with my unexpected desire to study theology — mostly because I’m an atheist. When I first told my family about my...

ASHLEY CHEN/THE HOYA | The Office of Planning and Facilities Management began identifying 40 new single-stall, gender-neutral bathrooms in buildings across campus.

GU Establishes 40 Gender-Neutral Bathrooms

By Myroslav February 7, 2019

Georgetown University began designating 40 single-stall, gender-neutral bathrooms in public buildings throughout campus, an initiative pushed by members of LGBTQ student advocacy groups. Before the...

AMANDA VAN ORDEN/THE HOYA Al Castillo (SFS 22) has found spaces to represent himself at Georgetown.

Trans, Nonbinary Students Forge Spaces Despite Difficulties

By Meena Morar December 7, 2018

For Al Castillo (SFS ’22), Georgetown felt like a chance to finally represent himself in his honest form. “When I was in high school, I presented myself as a girl — that was who I was,” said...

SHEEL PATEL/THE HOYA From left to right: Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security executive director Melanne Verveer, chief operating officer of WEConnect Greta Schettler (GRD 11), gender parity task forces coordinator at the Inter-American Development Bank Andrea Saldarriaga Jiménez (GRD 16), World Bank social scientist Miriam Müller and project director for the Womens Empowerment for Economic Development and Resilience Project Lucia España speak at an event Sept. 21.

Female Entrepreneurs Fuel Economic Success, Panelists Say

By Emily Leng September 25, 2018

Female economic participation cultivates a more equitable and productive economy, women’s rights experts said at a panel in Riggs Library on Friday, Sept. 21. Hosted by the Georgetown Institute...

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The Sound of Equality: Women Take the Stage at All Things Go Fall Classic Music Festival

By Mac Dressman September 6, 2018

This year, Ariana Grande proclaimed that God is a woman. Cardi B topped the charts with the Latin-inspired banger “I Like It.” Beyoncé strode onto the main stage at Coachella, to the applause...

KARNA: The Reign of Hookup Culture

By Caitlin Karna February 10, 2017

The college microcosm has seen the idea of sex, and the larger picture of romance in today’s society develop dramatically over the last decade. These changes have evolved into the young adult world...

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