The University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted February 21 to continue providing gender-affirming care for youth “in a manner compliant with existing law”—with some caveats. Trans rights and health care have been at the forefront of national political debate, with the Trump administration and conservative lawmakers stripping protections for LGBTQ+ Americans. For trans community […]
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted February 21 to continue providing gender-affirming care for youth “in a manner compliant with existing law”—with some caveats. Trans rights and health care have been at the forefront of national political debate, with the Trump administration and conservative lawmakers stripping protections for LGBTQ+ Americans. For trans community […]
The University of Virginia has many storied traditions. One, that of the Virginia gentleman, contributed to UVA being the last public university—aside from military institutions—to allow women. Spurred by a lawsuit, the school admitted its first class of female students in 1970. Gail Burrell Gerry was a member of that class of 367 women, and […]
The University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted February 21 to continue providing gender-affirming care for youth “in a manner compliant with existing law”—with some caveats. Under the resolution, providers can continue to treat current patients, but all “new patients seeking gender-affirming care of the nature described in the presidential executive order should be referred […]
Nicole Mitchell has sown the seeds of inventive music across the country through time in Chicago’s jazz scene, teaching in southern California and Pittsburgh, and now as a member of the University of Virginia’s music faculty. She splits time between Charlottesville and rural North Carolina, but harbors a desire to enliven central Virginia’s creative music […]
The University of Virginia is moving ahead with an initiative to house more students on Grounds, and one component has shifted slightly this month. A subcommittee of the Board of Visitors is scheduled to hold a special meeting February 19 to approve the schematic design for a $160 million project to build hundreds of bedrooms […]
Organizers across Virginia are again asking the General Assembly to pass legislation that would expand collective bargaining rights to include state employees. While a worker’s right to collectively bargain in Virginia was partially restored in 2021, the bill included a number of limitations and exceptions. State employees, including those employed by public institutions like the […]
Eighty attendees gathered to celebrate Deaf literature at the University of Virginia on February 8. The festival, which started as a student project for fourth-year Molly Rathbun, brought attention not only to the vibrant Deaf literature community, but the importance of accessibility. The festival first took shape last spring, as an independent project under Rathbun’s […]
Following an executive order from President Donald Trump and a memo from Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, UVA Health “has suspended all gender-affirming care for patients under 19 years of age … [but] remains committed to being a community of healing, compassion, and respect for all,” according to a statement on its children’s transgender youth […]
Romeo and Juliet February 8 Old Cabell Hall, February 9 Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center Celebrating its 50th season, the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia is busting out its big Shakespearean guns with bits from Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet of Romeo and Juliet. Famously tinkering with the Bard’s failed teenage romance, Prokofiev […]
The work of former University of Virginia students comes together in “A Continuous Storyline: Four Decades of UVA Painters” at the school’s Ruffin Gallery. In curating the show, UVA Professor of Studio Art Megan Marlatt chose artists with an active creative life who are developing, working, and making art. Tori Cherry (’20), whose stunning self-portrait […]