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newsletter, Noticias, is published by the center.
The director offers academic, career, and personal
advising focusing on a wide variety of topics such as
course selection, cultural identity issues, discrimination,
family concerns, culture shock, and successful
adaptation to the university environment. The
director is the advisor to ALAS and to La Casa, the
residential house on campus.
The Latino Center is located at 226 College
Avenue. For more information, visit
http://ase.tufts.edu/latinocenter or call
617-627-3363.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center
Tufts LGBT Center is a welcoming and safe space
which is open to the entire campus community.
Founded in 1992, the Center offers a mix of social
and educational events, training, and advising for all
Tufts students, faculty, and staff on issues related to
sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity/
expression. The Center space includes a television
lounge, computer room, library and study area. The
Center staff coordinates an LGBT and ally student
speakers’ bureau called Team Q, and also hosts
peer-led discussion groups includeing Queer
Students of Color and Allies (QSOCA), Bisexual/
Pan Group, Queer Women’s and Queer Men’s
Group. Working closely with the other centers on
campus as well as with academic departments, the
LGBT Center always strives to examine sexual
orientation and gender within the context of other
identity markers (such as race, ethnicity, nationality
and religion).
The Center’s Queer Peers program trains
LGBTQA peer mentors to serve as resources for
students who might be questioning, coming out, or
working through other issues. The Center director
represents LGBT concerns throughout the entire
university, and also meets individually with students
to discuss personal and academic issues. In addition,
the director helps advise the Queer Straight
Alliance (a student organization) and the Rainbow
House (a student housing unit), and works closely
with numerous organizations and programs,
including the Social Justice Leadership Initiative,
Jewish and Queer Students at Tufts ( JQUEST),
SPEAC, Boston Area Trans Students (BATS), the
GLBT Fletcher Student Group, the LGBT
Faculty-Staff Caucus, and the Campus Diversity
Council.
The LGBT Center is located at 226 College
Avenue on the second and third floors. We are
typically staffed Monday through Friday from 9am
to 5pm—come by to hang out, speak with a staff
member, meet up with friends, check out a book or
video from our lending library, use one of our
computers, grab a free cup of coffee or tea, or find a
quiet place to study. Free safer sex information and
supplies are also available. The Center’s website
features information about all our programs and
events, gender-neutral bathrooms, housing options,
a Queer Studies course list, and additional links to
resources around Tufts, Boston and beyond. For
more information, call 617-627-3770 or visit
http://ase.tufts.edu/lgbt.
Women’s Center
55 Talbot Ave
Steph Gauchel, Director
steph.gauchel@tufts.edu
The Tufts Women’s Center is a welcoming,
gender-inclusive space that is open to the entire
campus community. Founded in 1972, the center
provides opportunities for dialogue and education
about issues specific to women and more broadly
related to the experiences of gender that impact all
of our lives.
The Women’s Center is committed to fostering
student leadership and helping students identify
and understand societal structures that relate to
issues of power, privilege, and oppression. In this
pursuit, the center offers programs that focus on the
experiences of women and people of all gender
identities, with special attention to how other
aspects of identity such as race and ethnicity, sexual
orientation, gender expression, physical ability, and
socioeconomic class impact our experiences of
gender. Some of our programming includes: Dinner
and a Movie, First Friday Lunch Speaker Series,
Social Justice Communal Meals, Hot Topics, and
our annual Symposium on Gender and Culture.
Students who have enjoyed Women’s Center
programs and want to get more involved should
consider attending a biweekly meeting of the
Women’s Center Student Collaborative, SAGE
(Students Acting for Gender Equality). SAGE’s
mission is to foster a safe and collaborative community
in which students educate themselves on
gender issues while gaining the skills necessary to
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