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Raise Your Voice panel discusses sexuality, transgender resources, rape culture

Liam Price | Monday, April 11, 2022

Editor’s note: This article includes discussions of sexual abuse. A list of sexual assault reporting options and on-campus resources can be found on the Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross websites. The ongoing Raise Your Voice symposium at Saint Mary’s College held a panel Friday discussing research on sexual violence. The panel featured junior Clarissa Espinoza, senior Sarah

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If God is a woman, who am I?

Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, February 25, 2020

It doesn’t take long in Genesis for the authors to refer to God as “He.” In responding to Moses’ inquiry about what to call God, God does not assert masculinity, instead highlighting the transcendent nature of the divine: “I am who I am.” Yet still, God is consistently portrayed as a father figure throughout both

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Gender Studies, Triota Honors Society host panel on care for gender-diverse youth in response to SCOP event

Tom Naatz | Wednesday, February 5, 2020

The Gender Studies Program and Triota Honors Society hosted a panel of four experts on transgender health from Indiana University (IU) in a Tuesday night discussion. The panel explored the best clinical ways to assist children and adolescents struggling with their gender identity. It was organized in response to an event held by Students for

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‘Diversity and Inclusion Conference’ to explore social issue

Genevieve Redsten | Friday, September 6, 2019

Members of the tri-campus community will join together Friday in conversation at the “2019 Diversity and Inclusion Conference” at the Morris Inn from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.. The conference is open to students, staff and faculty, and will explore ideas about race, gender, sexual orientation and identity. Eric Love, director of staff diversity and

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‘Notre Dame: Unfiltered’ presents monologues and advertises campus resources

Nora McGreevy | Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Each spring for the past seven years, through a series of performed, anonymous monologues, Notre Dame’s “Show Some Skin” has provoked and encouraged its audiences to reflect on issues of identity and difference, especially as they intersect with race, gender, class, sexual violence, LGBTQ+ life and mental health. Yet as Samuel Jackson, a junior who

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Nun explores philosophy of gender

Sofia Madden | Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Sr. Mary Prudence Allen discussed the dignity of human gender at the sixth annual Human Dignity Lecture on Tuesday night. In the talk, she mapped out the history of gender constructions throughout time, beginning with ancient Greek philosophy and developing to notions of gender in the 20th and 21st centuries. She first identified the four elements in the

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Notre Dame dorm system: encouraging gender discrimination?

Letter to the Editor | Thursday, September 21, 2017

We know this might shock you, but we have a gender problem here at Notre Dame. This problem presents itself most apparently through the dorm system. Though the dorms do have many positive attributes and we both still have a lot of love for and loyalty to our dorms, we must not sit complacently by

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What’s the deal with Valentine’s Day?

Matthew Williams | Friday, February 24, 2017

When facing the looming festival of love that is Valentine’s Day, men and women in the West encounter two disparate challenges. For a man, the procedure is relatively predetermined: buy roses, jewelry, and/or chocolates; write a sweet card; and deliver it in a way that is novel and sincere. A woman’s actions, on the other

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Of Montreal’s “Innocence Reaches” Too High

Adrian Mark Lore | Thursday, September 1, 2016

Kevin Barnes is ambitious, let’s give him that. The front man of indie-rock outfit of Montreal is going on 43, and over the course of 14 studio albums — and as many extended plays and live records — he has scarcely ever allowed the band to settle into anything like habit or normalcy. The band’s first

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CEO confronts gender in global consumer economy

Meghan Sullivan | Friday, April 15, 2016

The Mendoza College of Business and the University’s gender studies program hosted Bridget Brennan, CEO of Female Factor and author of “Why She Buys,” on Thursday to discuss women’s role in business. Brennan’s lecture, “Top Trends in Marketing and Selling to Women,” began by explaining the growth trends in the marketplace. She addressed the fact

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