Student programs at the University of Connecticut received two of the 10 social justice mini-grants that Campus Pride distributed to schools across the the United States in a second round of 2021 awards, announced in late December. (A first set of 10 awards was announced this past June as part of Campus Pride’s 20th anniversary celebrations, when UConn also won a pair of them.)
Says Campus Pride, “Grantees represent schools from across the country working on projects ranging from providing binders to transgender students, cultivating a photojournalism series, developing educational & safe space trainings on campuses & supporting LGBTQ students on one of the most discriminatory campuses in the country.”
Along with UConn, the most recent awardees include programs at University of Minnesota, Virginia State University, University of Wisconsin, Brigham Young, the University of Southern Florida, George Washington University in DC and Penn State, which also received two grants.
The first of the two latest grants going to UConn will help fund research into topics including the effects of disability on transgender people’s sexuality, the intersection of race and disability and explorations into disparities marginalized people face.
UConn’s second December grant goes to research housing insecurity within the LGBTQ community in partnership with UConn’s Women’s, Gender and Sexuality studies department, and the publication of a zine centered on these issues.
UConn’s June grants went to a production of an original play with trans artists and the development of legislation to be presented to school administration to protect LGBTQ+ students on campus.
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