LGBTQIA+ identified faculty and staff are invited to join the BU Out List to share their expertise, support, and guidance.Inspired by the success of the current Boston University Medical Campus Out and Ally List, this list is a community-building tool accessible to all LGBTQIA+ faculty, staff, and students and the larger university community. Within the LGBTQIA+ FSCN, a committee of BU faculty, staff, and undergraduate students from Q convened to address the lack of visibility in the LGBTQIA+ community at BU and to create the BU Out List.Ī university-wide Out List connects and makes visible the vibrant LGBTQIA+ community that resides at BU. Eager to collaborate, members of Q, BU’s Queer Activist Collective reached out to the newly formed network about creating a university-wide platform for students to connect with and learn more about queer faculty and staff. In 2020, under the purview of the Boston University Diversity & Inclusion (BU D&I), the LGBTQIA+ Faculty and Staff Community Network (FSCN) was formed. BU faculty and staff repeatedly commented that this invisibility was pervasive and interpreted as indicating an unwelcoming environment.” As a result, the vibrant spectrum of the University’s LGBTQIA+ community remains largely hidden, both within BU and to prospective faculty and staff. “LGBTQIA+ faculty and staff are present throughout BU, but mechanisms through which community members can connect are in short supply outside of a small set of actively inclusive units. Objective: To promote visibility, connectedness, and sharing of resources among LGBTQIA+ faculty, staff, students, and the larger Boston University community.īackground: In their Report from May 2019, the BU LGBTQIA+ Task Force identified the following barrier to visibility:
A collaboration between the BU LGBTQIA+ Faculty & Staff Community Network and Q the Queer Activist Collective
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