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  • Next Steps, New Phase: A Graduation Reading List

    Graduation is a rite of passage that takes us either to the next step in education or our first step in a career. As a stage of new beginnings, it can be a time of uncertainty, but it’s also full of potential for growth. Graduation this season, though, seems particularly marked by uncertainty because of…

  • NBA Jam: Deciding Which Protests are Palatable

    By Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, MA The most recent show of support for LGBTQ causes in professional sports was the July 21 announcement by the NBA that the men’s All-Star Game would be moved out of North Carolina because of the state’s new anti-LGBTQ law, which includes a section barring transgender people from using bathrooms that…

  • Dear North Carolina: We’re Here, We’re Trans and Genderqueer, Get Used to It

    By Laura A. Jacobs To pee or not to pee: That is the question facing transgender and gender nonconforming people in North Carolina. I first wrote on this a year ago when only a few states were considering anti-transgender bathroom statutes which seemed unlikely to pass. In hindsight, that time seems almost quaint. Now North…