UMass students hold 'shit-in' for gender-neutral bathrooms

In addition to gender-neutral restrooms, the group is calling for the “advancement of medically and socially competent in-house transgender health services at the University Health Services center,” as well as the “hiring of a professor by the WGSS [Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department] who is an expert in the field of critical transmisogyny from an intersectional perspective.”

Divest UMass, a student environmentalist group, released a statement on its Facebook page expressing solidarity with the GLU protesters

“These demands are elementary, and it is disappointing that UMass has failed to meet the needs of trans and gender non-conforming students to date. The administration must seriously put a plan into action to de-gender its facilities,” the message declares. “In the meantime, maybe they will feel a little bit as anxious as trans students do just trying to pee on the campus they pay tuition to every single day.”

Although the objectives of Divest UMass are not directly related to those being pursued by GLU, but leaders of the Divest group explained their interest in the “shit-in” by asserting that all progressive causes are interrelated, saying, “There can be no climate justice without gender justice. There can no be gender justice without racial justice. There can no be racial justice without economic justice. There can be no economic justice without social justice.”

Within a day of the restroom occupation starting, GLU announced that it had secured a meeting with Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Enku Gelaye on Tuesday morning to discuss its demands, and subsequently reported Tuesday evening that administrators had “tentatively agreed to progressive ‘benchmarks’ put forth by organizers.”

“The administration is definitely listening and the tones of our conversation have changed quite a bit,” one GLU member told Campus Reform, though the group is cautioning its supporters to remain prepared, because “the need for action may arise at any moment.”


“Changing the signage really is not very expensive, and I don’t want to talk bad about the administration here, but that’s one of the things we’ve had to go back and forth about, is this idea of the cost of it,” another GLU member added. “I and other members of GLU think the numbers they have proposed for what it would cost to change the signage are way beyond what it would really be.”

UMass Executive Director of Strategic Communications Ed Blaguszewski, however, told Campus Reform that the university is committed to expanding the availability of gender-neutral restrooms, making no mention of cost concerns while asserting that university officials would continue to meet regularly with transgender students to discuss their concerns.

“Currently, there are more than 200 gender-inclusive, single-user restrooms on campus, and during the coming year more than 50 will be added, either by construction or by converting single-user ‘Men’ or ‘Women’ facilities to ‘Restrooms,’” he explained, adding that “All new construction and major renovations on campus will include gender-inclusive restrooms.

Why has the world come to this?

Fucking lol

Somewhat suspicious of site and searching it only seems to bring up other sites looking for right-wing shock value.

Searching twitter for shit-in UMass just brings up reblogs, searching Massachusetts + university brings up nothing. Can't see any actual student talking about it. Nothing on UMass reddit. Nothing on Amherst reddit.

I can see something like this in San Diego a while back on facebook - "SDSU Shit-In"

Best I can find for Amherst is here:

http://amherstwire.com/17995/campus/bathroom-occupation-begins-at-whitmore-administration-building/

That article certainly looks legit (the spokesman quotes actually works at the university, both of the students exist) but I still can't see anything from actual students. I guess maybe it's just not being widely publicized but better proof would be good, OP. I feel like if this happened at university and people couldn't go to the bathroom, some of them would be talking about it.

>>86227
> in an administration building
This is why every day students are not talking about it.
Also here you go
http://pastebin.com/FmHYcfXC
links to their site 4chan wont let me post direct links as they think it is spam I don't blame them this whole event is inane.

If they like shit so much they can have some of mine thrown in their faces.

I just wish someone went in there after eating a shit ton of refried beans, and just let it rip on the "shit in"

>>86200
UMass Amherst alum here. I'm not fucking surprised.

Can't they use the handicapped "family" bathrooms?

>>86238
Thanks dude

These little cupcake safe space useful idiots have a rude awakening once they graduate UMASS with a degree in underwater transgendered Belgian basketweaving. Maybe then, they'll grow up? Remember the KGB....the useful idiots are only good for destabilization. Once we roll our tanks in they will be lined up and shot or sent to the gulags. With that....I smile.

>>86201
>“hiring of a professor by the WGSS [Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department] who is an expert in the field of critical transmisogyny from an intersectional perspective.”

>critical transmisogyny from an intersectional perspective.”

i wish we locked insane people up.

>>86391
We used to Blame Reagan.

>>86309

They ought to. These people sound plenty handicapped to me.

>>86320
wow, over 4 memes per line! that's pretty impressive m8