MIT GSC DEI

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CulturalExchange@MIT aims to celebrate the International Education week at MIT. We have been working with international student orgs to plan events meant to educate, inspire, and build community! Join us in celebrating international diversity in an embracing and fun environment!

Join GSC DEI for our Disability Justice Board Game Night for grad students, especially those who identify as disabled and/or neurodivergent. Dinner is provided - RSVP to help us plan! tinyurl.com/gscdeigamenight. Email gsc-diversity-officers@mit.edu with any questions!

Sign up to present here: tinyurl.com/ydtr9fek Sign up to be one of the judges here: tinyurl.com/4uke3nn7

Need to practice your research pitch? Want more public speaking experience? Looking for additional professional development? You should sign up to present at GSC DEI’s Brown Bag Research Symposium! The symposium will be held on Friday, April 22nd, 3-5 PM.

The Grad Student Food Resource Fair will start in a bit! GSC DEI has lots of food and personal care products to give out! Make sure to stop by our table in the Student Center (W20 - Twenty Chimneys)!

Announcing our inaugural Future Faculty in Chemistry Symposium aimed at postdoctoral fellows who have demonstrated contributions to enhancing #DEI in #STEM! Info and application for the May 17-18 virtual Symposium here: chemistry.mit.edu/about/the-equi…

If you are interested in volunteering for monthly Food Connection events throughout the 2021-2022 academic year, please email us at gsc-diversity-officers@mit.edu.

GSC DEI is launching The Food Connection, a new initiative to address food insecurity on campus! Stop by our table on Wednesday 12/15, 4-8PM in Stata (location TBA) to pick up a food package, or visit tinyurl.com/foodconnect to submit an anonymous request for pick up or delivery.

Please join us for the GSCI DEI Welcome Event! Learn about our upcoming advocacy + how you can get involved. There are lots of opportunities + no experience required; we’d love to work with you! Info: Sept. 20, 5-6PM EST, over zoom; RSVP @ tinyurl.com/welcomedei

This testimony was collected by RISE. If you would like to share your experiences of racism, harassment, or discrimination within academia, you can submit at this rise4mit.com/testimonials. Or you can email us directly at rise4mit@gmail.com.

We must end the practice of placing responsibility on the victim of harassment, and instead, normalize the practice of those in power calling out and educating the perpetrator.

#TestimonialTuesday Week 43: “I told my advisor that a collaborator was making inappropriate comments about my appearance. Instead of sticking up for me... he implied that if I really cared about the project, these comments wouldn't bother me.” - Anonymous MIT Graduate Student

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Join us this week for a Grad Student Disability Justice Mixer on Wed. 6/16 at 7PM EST over Zoom! We’ll have a fun social mixer + a “know your rights” info session + a discussion on disability justice at MIT. Register at this link: tinyurl.com/DisabilityJust…

tinyurl.com/cs6m62ks If you support this article, please email Provost Martin Schmidt (schmidt@mit.edu), ICEO John Dozier (jdozier@mit.edu), and cc steercomm-students@mit.edu saying “I support the call for Institute-wide standards”

Check out this op-ed detailing how MIT’s promise of an “explicit, directional, and aspirational set of actions” for the DEI Strategic Action Plan was, behind closed doors, turned into a plan that does not successfully address any dimensions of an antiracist framework.

If you would like to share your experiences of racism, harassment, or discrimination within academia, you can submit at rise4mit.com/testimonials or email us directly at rise4mit@gmail.com.

...hiring DEI officers for departmental accountability, and reforming policies for addressing allegations of faculty misconduct. Now, more than ever, it is essential that we push for real and meaningful change. Check out our full list of demands at rise4mit.com/demands.

#TestimonialTuesday Week 34: “A postdoc was told by our PI (in front of the entire lab) that the reason why she was able to get faculty job offers with her paper still under review was because she was a woman."