Pride Month Support

Pride Month Support New LGBTQIA+ Resources

Happy Pride from the Office of Equity and Inclusion! Pride is celebrated each June in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, a movement led by black and brown trans women and femmes.

The Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) affirms and supports LGBTQIA+ communities. UMBC’s goal of inclusive excellence guides our efforts to create a supportive and inclusive environment for transgender, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and LGBTQ+ community members. While we recognize that achieving inclusion is an ongoing process, we are dedicated to working to provide an environment that is as inclusive and safe as possible for all people, regardless of their sexuality, gender identity or expression.

In honor of Pride month, OEI has launched a new resource page for LGBTQIA+ communities and allies which can be viewed here. Additionally, you can learn more about adding pronouns to your myUMBC profile and changing your social identifiers at UMBC here.

At UMBC, we believe that no one deserves to be harmed or harassed on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. If you are experiencing discrimination or harassment because you identify as LGBTQIA+ you can report it using OEI’s online reporting/confidential referral form.

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Happy Pride from the Office of Equity and Inclusion! Pride is celebrated each June in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, a movement led by black and brown trans women and femmes. The Office...

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June marks National LGBTQ+ Pride Month and offers the nation the opportunity to reflect on the incredible contributions of the LGBTQ+ community. Our nation is at its best when it welcomes, represents and includes people of all backgrounds. This includes people with disabilities and the intersections shared with the LGBTQ+ community. According to a study published in 2012, fully 36 percent of women in the LGBTQ+ community and 30 percent of men in the community also self-identify as people with disabilities. Learn more about the intersection via RespectAbility here.

Join their free virtual event Celebrating Disabled LBGTQ+ Voices in Media 6/4 at 4:30 via Zoom.

For a deeper dive on this dual identity check out the Disability and LGBTQA Resource Guide (link)

Resources at UMBC include:

LGBTQ Student Union - for all students

LGBTQ+ FSA - Faculty and Staff group

The Pride Center via i3b (check out their Pride Month post)

Spectrum Discussion Group via The Women's Center

Trans Support Group at The Counseling Center (+Pride Month awareness and resource post)

We celebrate with you! You matter! For question about disability or accessibility at UMBC, undergraduate and graduate students with disabilities connect with Student Disability Services online (link) or via disability@umbc.edu.

Accessibility & Disability Services (link) administers employee (faculty, staff, graduate assistant and student worker) accommodations.

UMBC's 2021 Accessible Route map is linked here.

This post was written by Stephanie Lazarus and reposted here. Thanks Stephanie!

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Please see the latest updates on UMBC’s Retriever Ready website. Questions? Email covid19@umbc.edu.

COVID-19 Health & Safety

UMBC’s Public Health Dashboard was updated with new data on June 2. There were no new positive on-campus cases during this reporting period.

COVID-19 Vaccine

Reminder: Please report your vaccination to the University ASAP. More information here. You must report your vaccination by July 6. Locate a vaccine site here and keep in mind that many sites offer walk up vaccines as well.

More information on our medical and religious exemption process and all necessary forms can be found here. You must have a request on file by July 6.

FFCRA Leave Reminder for Faculty and Staff

Leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) will expire on June 30, 2021. More information here.

Helping Others Who are Struggling

If someone you know is struggling emotionally or having a hard time, you can be the difference in getting them the help they need. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline can help. Call today.

UMBC Together

Visit the UMBC Together website for recent social media posts and the UMBC Together myUMBC group for information on upcoming events.

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As we move into Pride Month, the UMBC Counseling Center and University Health Services recognize the recent and continuous anti-trans sentiments and actions across the United States and the world. We also recognize the violence toward and murders of trans people and acknowledge the high rates of these instances committed toward trans women of color. Mental health concerns, including thoughts of suicide, may arise because of experiences of oppression.

We want to actively support our trans community and invite students to contact the Counseling Center between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday at 410-455-2472. If you have mental health concerns outside of regular business hours and wish to speak with someone from our After-Hours Support Line, please call 410-455-3230 or feel free to use Togetherall, our online peer support platform. As such events can have a significant impact on our ability to feel safe and at peace, please utilize the self-care techniques and strategies that can be found on our Instagram and Facebook platforms at @umbccounseling.

Trans Lifeline

Bmore Trans

Trans Maryland

Google Doc for United States and International Facebook Resources

GLAAD

Trans Equality

The Trevor Project

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As we move into Pride Month, the UMBC Counseling Center and University Health Services recognize the recent and continuous anti-trans sentiments and actions across the United States and the world....

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At Lavender Celebration this year, I shared that every day we create LGBTQ+ futures and that this is a declaration and imagining of new realities. Our very existence is a declaration and a celebration. I want us to spend some time in the past as well - to time travel this Pride Month. Let’s honor the folx who have come before us and added to the imagining of Queer and Trans futures. Our Queer and Trancestors who imagined new time and new realities, who imagined and resisted and fought for new realities. Take the time to honor them, know them and thank them.

Who are your Queer and Trancestors?

To Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera

To Gloria Anzaldúa and Alexa Negron Luciano

To Tony McDade and Nina Pop

To those who lived and loved in time past with the hopes of times to come.

I share with you this poem by Jose Richard Aviles (they/them/he) (@soynalgona on Instagram), an activist, social worker, and urban planner. I highly encourage you to check out the spoken word version of it on Instagram and we will share it on our i3b Instagram (@umbc_i3b).

The spirituality of queerness

A force field of

unconditional love

The first flower to bloom in

A post-apocalyptic heart

Our claim to liberation

Is in deciphering

shadows

Queerness is a dance

A choreography between shame and pleasure

I have grown accustomed to their wandering eyes

The essence of my being tickles

Their blushed cheeks

I love unapologetically

In the name of the ancestors who had to love in secret

What does it mean for us to be a good descendant? How can we honor the legacies that have come before us, while paving the way for a time to come? How can we be the time travelers of the imagining and working towards a different time and space? All of these questions are for us to make the time to reflect and honor this Pride Month and beyond. And to remember that we too, in time, will be Queer and Trancestors.

Further Reading:

Day Dreaming Yourself Into Existence by Alok Vaid Menon

Digital Transgender Archives

Pride 2020 Post-June is PRIDE season (myUMBC)

The History and Legacy of the Stonewall Rebellion (myUMBC)

UMBC Pride Month Happenings:

LGBTQ+ Pride Month Art Submissions-The Counseling Center

COVID-19 Health & Safety

UMBC’s Public Health Dashboard was updated with new data on May 26. There were no new positive on-campus cases during this reporting period.

COVID-19 Vaccine

Reminder: Please report your vaccination to the University ASAP. More information here. You must report your vaccination by July 6. Locate a vaccine site here and keep in mind that many sites offer walk up vaccines as well.

More information on our medical and religious exemption process and all necessary forms can be found here. You must have a request on file by July 6.

New UMBC Cares Faculty and Staff Emergency Fund

UMBC is pleased to announce the launch of UMBC Cares Faculty and Staff Emergency Fund. The fund was established to assist eligible employees experiencing an emergency financial need. Information regarding the application process can be found here. Donations to the fund can be made by visiting the UMBC Grit & Greatness Campaign page.

UMBC Transitioning to RCA Stage 4 on June 1

UMBC will transition to Stage 4 on-campus Research and Creative Achievement mode on June 1. Under Stage 4, we require a minimum of 50 sq.ft. per individual in any laboratory or studio on campus, an adjustment from the prior density of 150 sq.ft. per person under Stage 3, leading to an increase in density in labs and studios. More details are available here.

Updated Domestic Travel Guidance

University-related domestic business travel for faculty, staff, and students will resume on June 1, 2021. The University will reinstate pre-pandemic approval policies, including the requirement that all out-of-state and overnight in-state travel be approved prior to making any travel arrangements. Learn more here.

UMBC Together

Visit the UMBC Together website for recent social media posts and the UMBC Together myUMBC group for information on upcoming events.

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We're excited that several Class of 2021 Graduation stories featured students connected to the Women's Center and are spreading the news here. Be sure to check them out!

UMBC’s newest grads leave a legacy of advocacy, inclusion, and support for fellow students featuring Women's Center student staff member, Autumn Cook
Retrievers buck ‘traditional’ timelines and redefine success featuring Women's Center student staff member + RWS Scholar, Sandra Crespin-Melgar and RWS Scholar Evangeline Kirigua

UMBC’s latest graduates in the arts forge new creative paths despite a challenging year featuring Women's Center Advisory Board affiliate member, Rahne Alexander

You can also read more about our graduating Returning Women Student Scholars + Affiliates who graduated this May by checking out this blog post.

UMBC Magazine also recently published an article featuring UMBC caregivers which features graduating RWS Scholar, Erin Weeks and Women's Center Advisory Board member, Jo Gadsby.

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Pride Month is approaching us. The Counseling Center would like to celebrate the LGBTQ+ Community through your art submissions! The Counseling Center believes that self-expression supports thriving. Your art will be featured on our counseling center Instagram story and eventually in a highlight reel. Most art will be accepted. We ask that the art doesn't include nudity. We will contact you if there are any concerns about the pieces. If you would like to remain anonymous, that works too! Submissions will be taken from now and through June 18th. Posts will be featured June 1st through June 30th. QTPOC are encouraged to submit. By submitting a creative work for this campaign, you acknowledge and agree to UMBC’s Terms and Permissions.

Thank you again. To apply, please fill out this google form:

https://forms.gle/Unh33e2w9nwNCfsc6

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Pride Month is approaching us. The Counseling Center would like to celebrate the LGBTQ+ Community through your art submissions! The Counseling Center believes that self-expression supports...

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Hello i3b myUMBC community members!

As we begin to wind down from our commencement celebrations, we are actively transitioning to plan for the 2021-2022 calendar and would appreciate your insights!

By taking our ten-minute "End of Semester Survey (sp’21)" survey you will assist our team in planning for the upcoming academic year. Your thoughts on topics, suggestions for events, program delivery, and insights on building connections will ensure that we are creating a semester calendar with you in mind. If you have any questions about this survey or our work, please do not hesitate to contact us at i3b@umbc.edu.

As a thank you for completing this survey, five participants who complete the survey by Wednesday, June 10th by noon will be randomly selected to receive a special i3b giveaway box! Giveaway entry is completely optional and will be mailed out by Tuesday, June 15th.

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Hello i3b myUMBC community members! As we begin to wind down from our commencement celebrations, we are actively transitioning to plan for the 2021-2022 calendar and would appreciate your...

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Dear UMBC Community,

Given the improving health situation and evolving guidance, we are providing this update to the domestic travel policy message we issued earlier this month. University-related domestic business travel for faculty, staff, and students will resume on June 1, 2021, and the exception process described in our May 7 message will be rescinded. The University will reinstate pre-pandemic approval policies, including the requirement that all out-of-state and overnight in-state travel be approved prior to making any travel arrangements.

Failure to obtain this approval prior to making travel arrangements will result in denial of reimbursement regardless of the funding source. Student organizations should await guidance from the Division of Student Affairs for travel during the summer and fall 2021. New requests for University-related international travel are not being considered at this time and will not be approved.

The University will continue following the guidance of federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Governor, and the Maryland Department of Health for all University-related travel for faculty, staff, and students. University-related travel is travel for educational, research, or business purposes tied to the traveler's affiliation with the University.

All travelers on University-related out-of-state travel are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the start date of their travel unless appropriate waiver documentation is on file with the University.

Please review the following guidance prior to requesting approval for domestic University-related travel. We require and expect travelers to continue practicing all COVID-19 health and safety protocols according to CDC guidance and to comply with state and local mandates. Travelers must also be aware of and comply with current health and safety protocols at their destination site. Travelers will be required to acknowledge that they have reviewed and are in compliance with this guidance:

The CDC’s travel recommendations;
The CDC’s recommendations for domestic travel; and
The Maryland Department of Health’s travel recommendations.

You can start the process for obtaining approval for domestic travel after June 1, 2021 here.

Provost Philip Rous
Vice President for Administration and Finance Lynne Schaefer
COVID-19 Planning Coordinating Committee Co-Chairs

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Dear UMBC Community, Given the improving health situation and evolving guidance, we are providing this update to the domestic travel policy message we issued earlier this month....

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