Defining Safe
Defining Safe
The Daily Northwestern
Defining Safe: Defining Queer Space
20 minutes Posted May 28, 2021 at 4:58 am.
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Nearly 25 percent of Northwestern’s campus self-identified as queer in ASG’s last analytics survey, but the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center only holds ten people. And that’s one of the only institutional spaces on campus for queer students. There are proposals in the works to expand it, but for many students, campus-sponsored spaces aren’t the best ways to be in community with other queer students — or aren’t even spaces that feel like theirs. New from Defining Safe: How do queer students at Northwestern navigate formal and informal spaces around campus?