Dickinson Launches First Campus Pride Week
Pride Week festivities kick off Saturday, April 2
by Ellie Werner '22
The Office of LGBTQ Services is launching the first Campus Pride Week, April 2-8. Join in on the celebration by kicking off the week with Pride Fest on Saturday, April 2, and the many events to follow throughout the week.
LGBTQ+ Services is partnering with other offices and departments on campus to offer a range of activities to celebrate Pride on campus during the month of April, while students are still on campus. Look for the keynote talk given by Emily Newberry ’66, who will be describing how her life journey led her to advocating for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to cover transition-related healthcare. Check the Office of LGBTQ Services Events & Programs page for the full lineup, times and locations, and head to EngageD to register.
Schedule of events
SATURDAY, APRIL 2
- Campus Pride Fest
MONDAY, APRIL 4
- Out at Work: Navigating Careers as an LGBTQ+ Identifying Individual
TUESDAY, APRIL 5
- Perspectives on LGBTQ+ Study Abroad
- Glam Slam: Campus Pride Poetry Event
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6
- LGBTQ+ Faculty, Administration and Staff Social
- QTPOC Collab
- Rainbow Challah Making with Challah for Hunger
THURSDAY, APRIL 7
- Workshop: A Life of Activism Starting at Dickinson
- Keynote Talk: "Healing and Wholeness in Coming Out" by Emily Newberry ’66
FRIDAY, APRIL 8
- Queer Peers: Return to Minigolf at the Carlisle Sports Emporium
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Published March 31, 2022