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Gender Neutral Housing
Statement by Gender Neutral BU The following is a statement on behalf of the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism, the Boston University Student Government, and their student, faculty, administrative, parent, and alumni supporters. This statement is in response to the administration’s recent decision to indefinitely halt the Student Government proposal to implement Gender Neutral […]
The Invisible War Screening and Discussion with Inga Muscio
BU Announces Sexual Assault Crisis and Prevention Center!
PRESIDENT BROWN ANNOUNCES ESTABLISHMENT OF SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION AND RESPONSE CENTER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY BOSTON, May 3– Boston University President Robert A. Brown announced via email Monday morning the establishment of a center dedicated to preventing and responding to sexual assault on campus. The center is expected to be operational by the beginning of the […]
Response to Sexual Assault Symposium (BU Ideas Festival)
The Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism (CGSA) values working with student groups and academic departments to produce empowering and diverse programming at Boston University. Every event we choose to endorse must align with our core values and meet the requirements our co-sponsorship policy. The CGSA refuses to co-sponsor the Sexual Assault/Date Rape Symposium for […]
Run For The Center Eboard!
Ever wonder how our student-run Center hosts weekly events, maintains a website, has a rotating art gallery, updated health, sexual assault and education resources in our library and keeps our doors open Monday – Friday? We have a dedicated 11 person board and over 50 volunteers, committed to gender equality, anti-oppression, empowerment, consensus, and action. […]
Take Back the Night March and Rally
The Feminist Collective, a group that meets under the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism at Boston University is hosting a Take Back the Night march and rally on Friday, March 30 at 7:00 PM at the BU Beach with support from the university. Take Back the […]
“Female Genital Mutilation” in the American Imagination: 3/27
Tuesday, March 27th at 7:30PM in CAS 313 (725 Commonwealth Ave.) There are two things most Americans know about “female genital mutilation” . . . that it happens in Africa, and that it is very very bad. In the context of stopping violence against women everywhere, Dr. Lisa Wade explores how Americans frame their opposition […]
Sign the Petition for a Rape Crisis Center at BU!
Join the campaign! Add your voice to our online petition by clicking the link and writing a few sentences about why you support a rape crisis center at BU. In light of recent events, the establishment of a rape crisis center at Boston University is fitting and necessary at the university. This center would include a […]
Live Chat with Dean Elmore on Rape Culture
Board members Elisa Gill, Lizzie Whetstone, Sarah Merriman, Ariana Katz, Michelle Weiser, and Sasha Goodfriend sit down with Dean of Students Kenn Elmore. An audience of students, faculty, alumni, staff, and allies joined in the conversation, which lasted half an hour. The Dean of Students Office has broadcasted 15 minutes of the chat.