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Augustana should speak against regressive Iowan legislation

Carly Davis March 25, 2023

On Wednesday, March 8, the Iowa legislature passed a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender and gender non-conforming children in the state.  If the governor signs the bill into law, the...

Augustana should speak against regressive Iowan legislation

Carly Davis March 18, 2023

On Wednesday, March 8, the Iowa legislature passed a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender and gender non-conforming children in the state. If the governor signs the bill into law, the bill...

Cristina King, Miss Nationwide 2022 - keynote speaker at the event.

Students Observer Transgender Day of Remembrance

Krystina Slack November 25, 2022

The day after Arun Gandhi spoke to the Augustana community about the value of nonviolence, the Office of Student Inclusion and Diversity hosted an event that stressed the damage violence has had on the...

Dara Wegman-Geedey introduces speaker and Augustana alumna Christine Harb in the Wilson Center on Monday.

Healthcare is lacking for LGBTQIA+

Dina Marin March 5, 2020

Augie Alumnus and student doctor, Christine Herb, discussed the lack of inclusion in healthcare for transgender and genderqueer people on March 2 in the Wilson Center. Herb explained that many of the issues...

Finding Your Voice: Augustana’s Transgender Voice Program

Montserrat Ricossa March 28, 2019

Augustana’s communication and science disorders (CSD), voice/music, theatre, and women & gender studies departments are teaming up for a common goal: helping transgender students and community members...

‘Love, Simon’ was the movie queer youth needed

Thea Gonzales March 29, 2018

I'm just like Simon. For the most part, my life is totally normal. In high school, I glared at the 7 a.m. alarm, shuffled to school half asleep and drove through the suburbs with my friends at night, head...

Opinion: Transgender students deserve more acceptance

September 5, 2015

He. She. It. Those are the words that were used on the official “Pretty Little Liars” Twitter account to describe CeCe Drake, a character on the show who was revealed to be a transgender woman (and...

Media must make transition with transgender language

April 30, 2015

Bruce Jenner finally revealed the fact that he is transitioning into womanhood during a 20/20 interview on Friday night, and, as Jenner braved talking openly about his situation, there have been a wide...

Religion law leads to LGBT concerns

April 1, 2015

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed a bill into law on March 26, which will take effect in July, that would allow religious institutions to object to offensive actions, which Associate Professor in Religion...

First-year Jake Phillips, a pledge for the Sigma Kappa Tau, stands in the Brodahl parking lot reciting songs from the pledgebook alongside other sorority pledges.
Photo by Linnea Ritchie.

Pledges defy traditional Greek culture

March 26, 2015

First-year Jake Phillips stood next to seven other Sigma Kappa Tau pledges outside the Brodahl Building parking lot on March 12, learning songs about sisterhood even though Phillips identifies as genderfluid. Using...

Hilton-Morrow to release textbook

October 12, 2014

Wendy Hilton-Morrow has two faces: one as a dean at Augustana and the other an author. Her latest book, “Sexual Identities and the Media: An Introduction,” was sent to press. The textbook, which is...

Bigger issues beneath why Coming Out Day matters

October 9, 2014

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You’re scrolling through Facebook, when suddenly you see a post beginning with a phrase like, “Hi friends, I need to talk to you about a thing.” You click...

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