Equal opportunity in academia: can we count on quota?
Institutions of higher education in Belgium and in the rest of the world still grapple with achieving gender equity. According to official KU Leuven statistics, as of December 2019, 30% of Senior Academic Staff within KU Leuven were women. KU Leuven has since reiterated its commitment to improving its gender policy. But what is the current […]
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Opinion: “Can straight actors play LGBT roles?”
There has been some controversy surrounding the question whether straight actors can or should play LGBT roles. The answers have been very short and very simple: usually it’s something along the lines of “yes, it is called acting”. But this question is actually a very complex one, and sassy one-liners really don’t do the job […]
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OPINIE: De schuld in de onschuld van een straatnaam #LeopoldIIMustFall
“Kortrijk schrapt Leopold II-laan in Heule,” luiden de Belgische krantenkoppen na een besluit van het Kortrijks gemeentebestuur. Eerder nog werd het standbeeld van de voormalige koning op het Troonplein in Brussel met witte verf beklad. Een zoveelste doelgerichte actie die onze lugubere koloniale erfenis tracht aan te kaarten en te bekritiseren binnen een moeilijk maar broodnodig dekoloniseringsdebat.
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OPINIE: Islamitisch recht en de sluier van onwetendheid aan de faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
Het koloniale verleden laat nog steeds sporen na, ook in de academische wereld. Voor het handboek Rechtsvergelijking, meer bepaald het hoofdstuk ‘Islamitisch recht’, is dit helaas niet anders.
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#JusticeForSanda: Open brief aan Rector Luc Sels
Geachte rector Luc Sels Op 26 juli 2020 lazen we met verbazing en walging de reconstructie van de laatste uren van KU Leuven student, Sanda Dia, tijdens de fatale studentendoop in december 2018. We waren vol ongeloof bij het lezen van de feiten: studenten die een medestudent urenlang op dergelijke wijze konden folteren. Maar wat […]
Read moreQuick Guide to LGBTQI Related Films, Documentaries, and TV Shows
This list was made for KU Leuven Pride Week 2020! In collaboration with Leonardo LGBT International, LOKO, Stura Diversity, and the KU Leuven LGBTQI InfoPoint. The last couple of years have seen a huge increase in the number of LGBT+ related movies and TV shows available on mainstream streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon […]
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How To Be An Ally To the A [EN/NL]
The next part of this series is about a community that is often overlooked. These people are usually quite invisible, but do encounter a lot of stigma and misunderstanding around their lesser-known sexual orientation: asexuality.
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How To Be An Ally To the I [NL/EN]
The LGBTQIA+ acronym encompasses different non-normative identities. It expresses sexual and gender identities. But next to gender and sexuality, there is another “category”: sex. Sex refers to biology: …
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How To Be An Ally To the Q [EN/NL]
For the fifth installation of this series, we will take a look at what it takes to be an ally to the complicated, inclusive, wonderfully broad Q of the queer community.
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How To Be An Ally To the T [NL/EN]
This week: how to be an ally to transgender people, one of the most marginalised communities in our society.
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