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Pacific Lutheran University Confidential Advocate Website: Advocacy Services Telephone: 253-535-8204 Office: Center for DJS, Anderson University Center 150 Pacific Lutheran University Counseling
National Sexual Assault Hotline 1-800-656-HOPE PLU Non Discrimination PolicyPLU’s sexual misconduct policy is consistent with PLU’s Non Discrimination Policy. Specifically, PLU’s Non Discrimination policy prohibits sex discrimination (including sexual misconduct) and its philosophy of providing an environment in which students can live, work and study free from all types of discrimination including gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, or sex discrimination. For the full Non
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In the op-ed piece “it’s time to give up whaling” (TNT – 9/16), is Bergman writing to support the special nature of whales, or is he writing to attack Makah Culture? We’d like to make it
heritage. For thousands of years, Whale has nourished the Makah. Excavation at the Makah village of Ozette revealed that whale accounts for as much as 85 percent of all of the food represented by the recovered food remains. Few sites older than Ozette’s 1500 years have been sampled, but whale bones are common in sites of human activity as much as 4,000 years old. Makah Culture is alive. Their identity as whalers is an important part of the living culture. Although more than 70 years had passed
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How do you handle being the “first” or the “only”? Nikki Plaid ’96 (full oral history interview here)
right and so necessary,” Nikki said. The group served as a source of support and embodied an activist ethic that helped her see “how easy it was” and that “we needed queer activism.” From there, she joined her other social justice organizations. But she knew she was still fragmenting herself—choosing which aspects of her identity to highlight based on the context she was in at the time. “Each of those identities [Black, feminist, lesbian] was very real and very true to who I was… I don’t know that
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PLU student Jessica Waiau (‘08) used her time at PLU to work with the Diversity Center, Hawai’i Club, the Education Program, and then started working immediately after graduation. She recently joined me for an interview in which she discussed how the Diversity Center impacted her…
Jessica Waiau ‘08 Posted by: juliannh / February 23, 2022 February 23, 2022 By Felix HalvorsonPLU student Jessica Waiau (‘08) used her time at PLU to work with the Diversity Center, Hawai’i Club, the Education Program, and then started working immediately after graduation. She recently joined me for an interview in which she discussed how the Diversity Center impacted her identity development, communication skills, and perspectives on community. Our conversation was filled with warmth, funny
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Dr. Youtz has been part of the Trinidad Gateway Program since its beginning in 1993 and he began taking students to Trinidad and Tobago in 1999. This jewel of a country in the Southern Caribbean has a rich diversity of the world’s peoples and a…
fact a deep part of cultural identity—both personal and societal,” said Dr. Youtz. This course introduces students to the role of music (and allied art forms) in Trinidadian history and culture, and the ways that education promotes both unity and diversity of cultural expression. Trinidad is a post-colonial society with heritage communities from Africa, India, China, Venezuela, Portugal, Lebanon, France and England. Carnival music and masquerade were expressions of creative resistance by enslaved
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World expert addresses masculinity, violence Silence is not golden. That was the message from Sut Jhally , founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation . Jhally’s address last Thursday marked the beginning of PLU’s first Men Against Violence Program conference that examined men’s…
silence of the rest of us, the silence of the rest of us who consider ourselves the good guys.” A communication professor at the University of Massachusetts, Jhally is one of the world’s leading scholars on the role advertising and popular culture play in the processes of social control and identity construction. At his talk, he said gender identity does not occur naturally; instead it’s learned from images in the media, from peers and family members, and people simply act out the culturally-accepted
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 5, 2017)- Professor of Religion and Chair of Lutheran Studies Samuel Torvend, Ph.D., ’73 has spent his life studying religion and politics. “I wrote my senior thesis on religion and politics and I have never strayed from that,” Torvend said. The alumnus…
PLU professor uplifts story of ‘pink victims’ in farewell lecture Posted by: Kari Plog / April 5, 2017 Image: Robert Oelbermann died in Dachau, a Nazi concentration camp pictured above, in 1941. Oelbermann, who faced persecution because of his identity as a gay man, is the subject of Samuel Torvend’s farewell lecture as chair of Lutheran Studies. April 5, 2017 By Genny Boots '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (April 5, 2017)- Professor of Religion and Chair of Lutheran Studies
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Dear Campus Community: This Sunday, November 20th, is the annual observance of the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Founded in 1999, TDOR is an opportunity to memorialize the people murdered because of transphobia, and to bring attention to the continued violence and prejudice endured by the…
compounding of gender identity, race, and socioeconomic status renders some more vulnerable to violence than others. Legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw coined the term “intersectional” to describe how our identities overlap in vastly complex configurations of privilege and oppression. While it is imperative to acknowledge the violence done to transgender individuals, these individuals are not transgender alone. It is impossible to understand these acts of violence without considering other dimensions of
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Dr. Seth Dowland, Seminar in Religion
I took more classes because it was a unique way to understand why people do what they do and it blends well with my nursing career. Kiah Miller “Seeking Visibility and Care: Constructing a Practical Bisexual Theology” Abstract: Sitting at the intersections of queer theology, queer theory, and bisexual identity, my project explores trends of societal bisexual invisibility, bisexual experiences within Christianity, and theological insights from a particularly bi lens. Ultimately, I conclude that
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Originally published in 2003 The daily headlines reflect the relentless march to war and violence: probable war in Iraq, continuing strife in the Middle East and the “war” on terror. Like other members of faith communities across the globe, I find myself wondering how I,…
betterment of humanity. All of these people shared common attitudes, commitments and acted upon them, but it was not necessary that the same ideas, understood in the same way, led them to these actions and commitments. Le Chambon was a faith community founded not so much based upon an explicitly shared theological doctrine, but on a shared sense of identity, on common perspectives that allowed them to work in concert without having to coordinate and agree on a plan of action in advance. Out of necessity
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