LGBTQ+ Campus Preview: August Edition

Welcome to the Campus Preview!

1. Fall Lavender Orientation
2. Peer Mentoring Program
3. UNIV 100-024: Transition to Mason
4. LGBTQ+ Student Showcase
   • Call for Proposals
5. Queer Buddy System Discord
6. Event Accommodations

Fall Lavender Orientation (for all students!)

Join the LGBTQ+ Resources Center at Lavender Orientation to learn more about our office, student groups, and other campus resources while connecting with other queer, trans, non-binary, and questioning students!

Peer Mentoring Program

We are excited to announce the opening of our Fall 2023 Peer Mentor application! And, for anyone looking for support from an upper-level student, our Peer Mentee sign-ups are still open!

Mason’s LGBTQ+ Peer Mentoring Program promotes the personal and academic success, health, and well-being of its queer and questioning student participants through upper-level mentors and special events! For more information, visit our program webpage.

UNIV 100-024: Transition to Mason

The LGBTQ+ Resources Center and University Studies are excited to share our UNIV 100-024 course. Register for this engaging 1-credit transition to Mason for first-year students!

LGBTQ+ Student Showcase

This Fall, the LGBTQ+ Resources Center, Women & Gender Studies Center, and Graduate Student Life are sponsoring Mason’s first LGBTQ+ Interdisciplinary Showcase!

This one-day in-person event will spotlight Mason’s graduate and undergraduate students’ outstanding scholarly, research, and creative works through posters, oral presentations, and creative, visual, and performing arts that highlight the work of our LGBTQ+ students.

See below for details on the call for proposals!

Call for Proposals

GAPSA and the conference planning committee invite all Mason graduate, professional, and undergraduate students to submit their abstracts (250 words maximum, including an optional personal statement of 1-3 sentences) for consideration. As this is our inaugural year, we won’t be sponsoring a specific theme and encourage all our students to submit current and/or in-progress work they are interested in sharing with our community. We call for proposals from any discipline or area of study, which may be submitted by graduate, professional, and undergraduate students individually or in collaboration with their faculty. Proposals can be individual/group papers, documentaries, films, and visual presentations and performances. While the call for proposals is open only to current Mason graduate, professional, and undergraduate students, we allow students to submit works in which they collaborate with external researchers.

The deadline for Presenters to submit their abstracts electronically is October 1, 2023, at 5 pm (COB). Please use this link to submit: https://forms.office.com/r/0fBhpADVbv

Queer Buddy System Discord

Find new friends and experience campus community on our inclusive server!

For accommodations, contact Disability Services at ods@gmu.edu. Please be aware that a 1-week notice is requested as some accommodations may require time for the University to arrange. Learn more about Event Accommodations here: ds.gmu.edu/event-accessibility.