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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Boston City Hall. City Councillors recognized International Jazz Day, approved a Youth Works Grant and discussed establishing an office and a commission for LGBTQIA2S+ advancement and oversight respectively.

City Council celebrates International Jazz Day, approves $4 million for YouthWorks Grant, discusses establishment Office of LGBTQIA2s+ Advancement, Oversight Commission

Elizabeth Mehler, Associate Campus Editor April 30, 2025

Boston City Council recognized International Jazz Day with a guest performance, approved $4 million for the YouthWorks Grant and discussed the establishment of an Office of LGBTQIA+ Advancement and a Transgender,...

Trans-exclusive feminism is not feminism | Final Girl

Trans-exclusive feminism is not feminism | Final Girl

Kiana Aftahi April 27, 2023
If we want to progress past age-old stereotypes and prejudices, we have to abandon preconceived notions of sex and gender. 
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REYNOLDS: Bathrooms: An Unlikely War Zone

Rebecca Reynolds February 25, 2015

Everyone wants to feel safe as they do their business in public restrooms. Everyone. This includes both cisgender people (people who identify with the gender they were assigned to at birth) and transgender...

CARIKER: Time For Trans Rights

CARIKER: Time For Trans Rights

Mariel Cariker January 29, 2015

At the end of December 2014, a young girl named Leelah Alcorn took her own life. She was born Joshua Ryan Alcorn and was raised in a conservative Christian household. When she was 14, she came out to her...

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