Word: genderism
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...long way from its days of expelling students believed to be gay: bisexual, gay, and lesbian (though not transgender) students are now protected by the University’s non-discrimination code, openly queer professors profess in classes where openly queer students learn, and all Houses now have Gender and Sexuality Tutors. It’s easy to think that homophobia and heterosexism at Harvard are things of the past...
...homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia are still very much a fact of life here. Many queer students are still expected to explain or defend their identities and decisions, there are queer students who continue to find Harvard an inhospitable place to come out, people’s sexual and gender identities still serve as a basis for prejudice, and anti-queer acts of violence occur. Moreover, some social circles are considerably less accepting than others. Despite all of the progress Harvard has made, we can still make the University a better place for queer students, faculty, and staff...
...campus) where it is taken for granted that everyone is straight save a few well-marked exceptions who are rarely ever worth mentioning. But the more people assume, the more arched eyebrows at same-sex couples walking down the street, the more stares at students whose genders are difficult to distinguish, the more gossip about people coming out of the closet, the more discomfort about mentioning one’s queer gender or sexuality, the fewer such mentions, the more people assume...
...radical,” some people will think that we’re doing good work, but everyone is less likely to take for granted that all the people on their e-mail lists, in their classes, in their houses or in their suites share a single sexual or gender identity...
...They can be as foolish or stupid in [their] hiring,” Riley said of Harvard. “The debate over qualifications should not be our focus. Your focus should always be on race and gender. Where is the evidence that race or gender had anything to do with this...