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2020 PrideVMC Student Diversity Award

Mar 3, 2020 | Awards, Diversity & Inclusion, Education, Events, Student Grants

powered by Merck Animal Health APPLY NOW Scott E. Page is a professor at Michigan State University and author of many articles and books including "The Diversity Bonus". According to Page’s research, 1 + 1 can actually equal 3, but only when the two 1s are different....

2020 PrideVMC Student Intersectionality Award

Mar 3, 2020 | Awards, Diversity & Inclusion, Education, Student Grants

APPLY NOW Kimberlé Crenshaw defined the term intersectionality to help us acknowledge and understand the compounding effects of oppression. Intersectionality is a lens through which we view the world, it is “the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as...

Two New $4000 PrideVMC Student Awards Announced

Mar 3, 2020 | Diversity & Inclusion, Education, Grants, Pride, Pronouns, Student Grants

The Pride Veterinary Medical Community (PrideVMC) is excited to announce the following two new veterinary and veterinary technician student awards. The PrideVMC Student Diversity Bonus Award powered by Merck Animal Health Scott E. Page is a professor at Michigan State...

No more homecoming queen? Schools advised to consider nonconforming gender identities

Mar 3, 2020 | Diversity & Inclusion, Education, Pride, Pronouns

Should time-honored school traditions dubbing students as kings and queens for homecomings and proms be changed in favor of more gender spectrum-inclusive titles? This article was originally published on March 2, 2020 by Madhu Krishnamurthy on...

Black History Month: 17 LGBTQ+ black pioneers who made history

Feb 29, 2020 | Diversity & Inclusion, Education

In celebration of Black History Month, NBC Out honors the black LGBTQ trailblazers of the past and present. Picture: Storme DeLarverie, Marsha P. Johnson and Bayard Rustin. New York Times, Netflix, Getty Images This article was originally published on February, 13,...

PrideVMC at WVC 2020

Feb 24, 2020 | Diversity & Inclusion, Education, Events

by Dr. Dane Whitaker PrideVMC President Dane Whitaker and Treasurer Kara Burns PrideVMC’s participation in the 2020 Western Veterinary Conference in Las Vegas was a great success! This was the first time that we had an official presence at the conference with our...

‘Pose’ star Billy Porter delivers his ‘State of the LGBTQ Union’ address

Feb 7, 2020 | Diversity & Inclusion, Education

(CNN) President Donald Trump wasn't the only one to deliver a State of the Union address on Tuesday. This article was originally published on February, 5, 2020 by Lisa Respers France on CNN.com. "Pose" star Billy Porter gave his second LGBTQ State of the Union...

A Poem for the Veterinary Community

Jan 21, 2020 | Diversity & Inclusion, Pride, Pronouns

Andrea Gibson, an American Poet performs "A Poem for the Veterinary Community" at VMX 2020. https://youtu.be/en-pJkdsh8I

Diversity and Inclusion Trends 2020: The Year of Tough Measures

Jan 13, 2020 | Diversity & Inclusion, Education, Pronouns

This article was originally published on January 10, 2020 by Chiradeep BasuMallick on hrtechnologist.com. The world has changed, and the workplace has become more inclusive over time. But despite making incremental progress, the state of diversity and inclusion is far...

More LGBTQ millennials plan to have kids regardless of income, survey finds

Dec 28, 2019 | Diversity & Inclusion

The price of parenthood can be costly for LGBTQ families, especially those dependent on assisted reproductive technology. Image: Chandra Chester, with her wife, Lynn Doyle and their two children. Image from Lisa Fleet First published on December 27, 2019 by Julie...