UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS
Are university campuses safer spaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks?

For many, the first indication that something was terribly wrong came by text.

The words "Are you ok?" popped up on the phone of Carla Fehr, the Wolfe chair in scientific and technological literacy in the philosophy department at the University of Waterloo, as she was working from home on the afternoon of June 28, 2023.

More than 3,300 kilometres away in Calgary, Corinne L. Mason, associate professor of women's and gender studies at Mount Royal University, was walking their dog when the phone started to buzz. "Oh my God, did you hear?," the text read.

In Kingston, Sailaja Krishnamurti, head of the department of gender studies at Queen's University, was sitting down to a reception with other women department heads when a message from a friend appeared on her phone. Dr. Krishnamurti gasped loudly, drawing the attention of others in the room. She then had to explain the news to her colleagues.

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