Happy Pride Month 2022! To celebrate, the Staff Pride Network is offering a limited number of t-shirts for free to network members. We’ve got seven variations of the SPN logo available, representing a number of pride flags. Check out the t-shirt designs (image file on SharePoint) UPDATE 6 JUNE Please note that the following logo… Continue Reading Celebrate Pride Edinburgh 2022 with us in style!
10 – 16 September: Students’ Week (title tbc) A week for students to experience life in the community, to share laughter and stories, to explore the island and to reflect on current concerns. This week is jointly led by Iona Community staff with staff and students from Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities and the Student Christian… Continue Reading Iona Community: Student Week this September with Mx Ashwin Africanus Thyssen
Excerpt: You can’t get rid of glitter. It doesn’t matter whether you sprinkle it like fairy dust or send it in a card; whether you glitter-bomb as a protest or decorate your face with it at a festival. It doesn’t matter how the glitter got there in the first place – you can’t get rid… Continue Reading The Pride material “Grace Like Glitter” launch
spending time together, exploring their own identities and the Iona Community’s work for social justice. There’s plenty of time to discover community over meals, to laugh and relax outdoors, to engage in creative activities, to explore this beautiful island with its white sandy beaches and profusion of wildlife, to read or write in the library… Continue Reading Breathing Space: a week on Iona for LGTBQ+ folks and allies
Dear Members, Today we have an exciting and emotive message for you from Urzula Glienecke (she/her), Associate Chaplain and SPN volunteer: I’m delighted to share some great news from the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Today it voted in favour of ‘same sex’ marriage. Many voices were saying: ‘At last!’ It has… Continue Reading A message for you from Urzula Glienecke (she/her), Associate Chaplain and SPN volunteer
This is to certify that the University of Edinburgh is a proud member of the Rainbow Enterprise Network. By joining, they have pledged to actively and positively promote equality, diversity and inclusion. Everyone is very welcome to use their spaces and services, including LGBTQ+ and intersectional communities. This is a safe place and they will… Continue Reading Officially a proud member of the Rainbow Enterprise Network
IDAHOBIT 2022 (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, & Transphobia is coming up next week. The Staff Pride Network are marking the date with an online event: IDAHOBIT: Becoming and Being Gay Parents Tues 17 May, 17:30 – 18:30 BST Register to attend via Eventbrite / find out more See below for a blog post from… Continue Reading Shared Parental Leave: Another Perspective
Margaret Blake shares some thoughts on the new LGBT+ coming-of age series. Hi, I’m Margaret and I work at the School of Informatics. I was just speaking with Jonathan (Staff Pride Network co-chair) about ‘Heartstopper’, a new series that is available on Netflix, which I’ve been watching with my 14 year-old daughter. She’d mentioned… Continue Reading Colleague Review: Heartstopper
She’s the enfant terrible of Trans academia, described in her book as “the David Bowie of Californian English professors.” Grace Lavery is at the University of Edinburgh to promote her memoir, Please Miss: a heartbreaking work of staggering penis, and like Bowie, the book constitutes in its diversity of styles and switches of voice a marmite quality you’ll… Continue Reading Grace Lavery at the University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh LGBT+ Medics Society invite you to our first event of LGBT+ History Month – ‘Tell Me About It’. Meet us in Room G.01, 50 George Square at 7.30pm on this Monday 7th. This is a great opportunity to meet members of our society and build connections with LGBT+ people and allies across the year… Continue Reading Edinburgh LGBT+ Medics Society Event: ‘Tell Me About It’
