“We can’t study the impact without knowing the population,” Christy Mallory, legal director of the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, told the Associated Press in July 2023. The Williams Institute is a Los Angeles-based think tank that researches sexual orientation and gender iden...
You learn at an early age to relate to people who aren’t you when you are part of a marginalized people group, regardless of whether that means gender identity, race, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status, etc. A desire for diversity is a desire to see many facets of ...
In the sixth grade I asked Sister Superior why the Bishop of Rome held sway over American Catholics, who at that time provided the majority of funds for the activity of the Holy See, and whose Bishops, many of whom were immigrants, all of whom were unmarried, did nothing to end the ins...
andgoesuntilthelastweekofMayorthefirstweekinJunenextyear.InAmericanhighschools,thefreshmenclassusuallygoesbackoneortwodaysbeforetherestoftheschoolbodyforanorientation(迎新)period.Anorientationperiodhelpsthefreshmengetfamiliarwiththeirnewschool,itsrules,andsurroundings.Insomeschools,thefreshmenclasseshavetheirphotographs...
It was preschool orientation day, and the boy was three and half and as yet undiagnosed (1998 was a different time). Everyone in our playgroup had different orientation times so all of the moms and kids gathered at our house and people took the little ones up to school for orientation and...
Farming computer games enable the ‘desk chair countryside’—millions of people actively engaged in performing farming and rural activities
Unwelcoming communities are a huge contributing factor in these statistics: a 2010 study in the Chronicle of HIgher Education reported that about a quarter of queer university students had been harassed because of their orientation, and a 2009 survey found that among participants, queer students ...
Here at base camp I discovered a pair of Harry’s outgrown snowboarding pants from 10thgrade when he was, for a moment, around the same height as me, which – incredibly – fit (okay, so I had to breathe in a bit and the legs were too long) and a Finnish snow jacket discarded by...
When it's time for lunch, I look at online menus for local restaurants and place an online order. After lunch, I return calls on my iphone, answer more e-mails, perhaps grade more papers. If I don't have a meeting in which everyone sits with a computer or ipad in front of them,...
Continuity and change in women's weight orientations and lifestyle practices through pregnancy and the postpartum period: the influence of life course trajectories and transi- tional events. Soc Sci Med. 2000;50(4):567–582. 7. Raymore LA, Barber BL, Eccles JS. Leaving home, attending ...