Annual Center Awareness Day WebinarThe Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals honors and observes LGBTQ+ Center Awareness Day by hosting a webinar on some of the most pressing topics facing the work of queer and transgender resource professionals. While many of our regular webinars throughout the year cover topics that are of most concern to our membership, the Center Awareness Day webinar is meant to be attended by any and all stakeholders, and those in decision-making roles impacting queer and trans resource work on a campus are highly encouraged to attend in particular.
2025 Center Awareness Day Webinar - "Walking on Eggshells: The Realities of LGBTQIA+ Centers in the Current Climate"Friday, October 17th on Zoom9-10:30am PT / 10-11:30am MT / 11am-12:30pm CT / 12-1:30pm ETIn today’s landscape, LGBTQIA+ centers and in turn, their staff, are sites of political turmoil as they continue to navigate the complexity of institutional pressures, transphobia, systemic violence, and uncertainty about their future. This years’ theme highlights and honors the dissonance between the realities current staff and students face throughout this time. This panel discussion, framed through trauma-informed and queer theoretical lenses, explores the emotional and political labor of queer and trans resource professionals, the supervision and support (or lackthereof), and the uneven institutional responses that leave many walking on eggshells. Join us as we name the challenges, honor community resistance, and co-imagine centers, and futures, that love us back. LGBTQIA+ Centers are life-saving resources on campus, and we hope you can join us for this conversation! Register to Attend Here by October 10thAbout LGBTQ+ Center Awareness DayLGBTQ+ Center Awareness Day takes place every October 19th and is meant to bring awareness to the work, needs, and value of LGBTQIA+ centers and organizations of all kinds. While the Consortium focuses on offices and programs hosted by higher education institutions in our celebration, Center Awareness Day is for LGBTQIA+ centers in communities everywhere. Learn more with CenterLink, which originated the day in 1994. |