Asexuality and Health Care Experiences

October 25th, 2023

Ace Week (formerly, Asexual Awareness Week), takes place in the last full week of October. It is a campaign designed to increase awareness and education surrounding asexuality and asexual issues. Asexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by experiencing little to no sexual attraction to any gender. It may also be used as an umbrella term […]

Title IX of the Education Amendments

September 21st, 2022

Title IX of 1972 Title IX is a federal civil rights law passed as a part of the Education Amendments of 1972. The law prohibits sex discrimination in “any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” Title IX specifically states that no person, on the basis of sex, shall be “excluded from participation in, […]

BIPOC Mental Health Month

July 20th, 2022

The United States observes BIPOC Mental Health Month each July to bring awareness to the mental health needs and struggles of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color in the United States. When it was first formally recognized in June of 2008, this month was named Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. […]