Session:
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Challenges Faced by LGBT Physicists
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Paper Type:
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Contributed
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Title:
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Lessons Learned from LGBTQ+ Roundtable Discussions at CUWiP
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Meeting:
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2017 Winter Meeting: Atlanta, Georgia |
Location:
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Date:
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Time:
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1:40PM
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Author:
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Robin Bjorkquist,, Cornell University,
503-423-7253, rb532@cornell.edu
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Co-Author(s):
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None
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Abstract:
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I first attended CUWiP in 2009, a few months before my college graduation. It was a powerful and inspiring experience, and I returned home feeling hopeful about my future as a physicist. I encountered CUWiP again as a graduate student, when I joined the local organizing committee for the 2013 conference at Cornell. Since then, I have attended three more conferences as a graduate panelist and workshop leader (2014 Penn State, 2016 Ohio State and 2017 Wisconsin). Most recently, I have been leading LGBTQ+ roundtable discussion workshops, to give LGBT participants an opportunity to meet each other and discuss their experiences, needs, and available resources. I will share some take-away messages from these sessions, as well as best practices for LGBT inclusion at CUWiP, other women-in-physics events, and physics as a whole.
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Footnotes:
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None
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Presentation:
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Bjorkquist_AAPT_WM17.pdf
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