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Anonymous Instagram account @__here4you_ uses art to create a digital safe space. The account is run by a former Ithaca College student, Wren Verga. Contact them on Instagram via direct message.

Commentary: Account uses art to help heal trauma

By Wren Verga • February 16, 2022
Here 4 You was created to be the safe space someone could find on their own scavenge for peace and belonging. It is an Instagram page that discusses
Ethan Cepeda helped raise awareness for transgender rights at his high school by holding workshops to educate teachers. Cepeda also spoke out about the importance of gender neutral bathrooms and advocated for their implementation in the school.

Q&A: Student wins the Hometown Hero award for LGBTQ advocacy

By Vivian Goldstein • January 21, 2019

When Ithaca College freshman Ethan Cepeda received the New York Daily News’ 2018 Hometown Hero Award, he didn’t even know award existed. Suddenly, on Nov. 2, his mother and sister were accepting the...

A men's bathroom on the second floor of the Roy H. Park School was converted into a gender-neutral bathroom Sept. 25.

New gender-neutral bathroom added to Park School

By Sam Haut, Staff Writer • October 10, 2018
In the Roy H. Park School of Communications, one of the men’s bathrooms on the second floor was converted into a gender-neutral bathroom Sept. 25.
Editorial: Ithaca College is behind on gender neutral access

Editorial: Ithaca College is behind on gender neutral access

February 24, 2016
Ithaca College should be doing more to provide adequate restroom access for gender nonconforming students.
Ithaca College has announced its new open-housing policy — a housing option that enables students to select roommates regardless of their sex or gender. Freshmen Anna Gardner and Joe Simpson plan on utilizing the open-housing policy in the fall.

Ithaca College allows students of different sex to be roommates

By Elena Piech, Staff Writer • February 23, 2016
Ithaca College recently announced its new open-housing policy, allowing students to select roommates regardless of sex or gender.
Commentary: 'They' used as a singular pronoun is not new to English

Commentary: ‘They’ used as a singular pronoun is not new to English

By Michael Twomey • September 23, 2014
The use of "they" as a third-person singular pronoun is grammatically incorrect, but it has been an English colloquialism for centuries.
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