{"id":75,"date":"2018-07-06T11:26:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T11:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/assistant-provost-edi\/?p=75"},"modified":"2018-10-17T08:12:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T08:12:35","slug":"lgbt-in-stem-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/assistant-provost-edi\/2018\/07\/06\/lgbt-in-stem-day\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT in STEM Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, yesterday was the very first <a href=\"https:\/\/prideinstem.org\/lgbtstemday\/\">international day of \u00a0LGBTQ+ people in science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM)<\/a>. The 5th July date was chosen for the geekiest of reasons: it can be written as 5\/07 or 7\/05 (depending on which side of the Atlantic your are on); in nanometres these are the wavelengths of the colours green and red that feature in rainbow symbol adopted to represent the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n<p>The College celebrated the day by adding rainbow icons to its social media feeds and posted profiles of four of our staff members from our own LGBTQ+ community. Laurence&#8217;s profile is below, but thanks also to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imperialcollege\/status\/1014869055386324998\">Giulia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imperialcollege\/status\/1014803675154444288\">Dan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imperialcollege\/status\/1014827531759955968\">Ji Young<\/a> for sharing their experiences; and to Ben, who wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnergyFuturesIC\/status\/1014826296654860290\">why the day matters to him.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Visibility and openness are most important for our students. I hope to encourage them to embrace diversity, LGBT+ and beyond.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LGBTSTEMDAY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LGBTSTEMDAY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PrideMatters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PrideMatters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kQgoQ0VzPm\">pic.twitter.com\/kQgoQ0VzPm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Imperial College London (@imperialcollege) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imperialcollege\/status\/1014905581310750720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In Nature a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-05587-y\">moving article by Dr. Jon Freeman<\/a>, a gay assistant professor at Stanford, described his experiences of isolation with academia and the importance to him of discovering senior LGBTQ+ colleagues who understood what he was going through and gave him hope.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><em>&#8220;Just being able to talk science with a more senior researcher who was \u2018like me\u2019 was a powerful signal that I had a place in the scientific community.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The importance of such contacts cannot be under-estimated. So I hope all staff and postgraduate students are aware that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/equality\/staff-networks\/imperial-600\/\">Imperial600 network<\/a> is open to them. Along with Imperial600, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/equality\/equality-at-imperial\/edic\/\">EDI Centre<\/a> at the College will be working over the coming months to train a network of allies \u2013 non-LGBTQ+ staff who have volunteered to offer understanding and support to LGBTQ+ colleagues. I had <em>my<\/em> first training session at the LSE earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, Imperial will once again be participating in the Pride in London march tomorrow \u2013 watch out for us if you&#8217;re in town tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-76 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/assistant-provost-edi\/files\/2018\/07\/180706-Pride-Colege-Website-1024x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, yesterday was the very first international day of \u00a0LGBTQ+ people in science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM). The 5th July date was chosen for the geekiest of reasons: it can be written as 5\/07 or 7\/05 (depending on which side of the Atlantic your are on); in nanometres these are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[818],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/assistant-provost-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/assistant-provost-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/assistant-provost-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/assistant-provost-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/assistant-provost-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/assistant-provost-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/assistant-provost-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/assistant-provost-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/assistant-provost-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/assistant-provost-edi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}