Amid COVID-19, non-essential healthcare has been delayed, causing many transgender patients to lose access to gender-affirming care like hormone therapy, surgeries, and more. And this isn’t a new problem — healthcare discrimination has disproportionately affected trans people for a long time. Defining Safe spoke to Northwestern students Sadd Sadd, Erique Zhang, and Michael Ann DeVito...

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For years, students at Northwestern have been pushing the University to reckon with its history and complicity in settler colonialism. One of their principal demands? A program in Native American and Indigenous Studies. This program is now set to launch as a minor in Weinberg College. PATTY LOEW: Native Americans are one of the invisible...

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Washington-based online-shopping service Amazon is facing intense criticism and accusations that it’s not doing enough to protect its workers. One of these workers happens to be Weinberg freshman Joey Ribera. Defining Safe asked him to keep audio logs and document the realities of working in an Amazon warehouse during a global pandemic. JOEY RIBERA: Hello...

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How has the rise in reports of anti-Asian racism impacted the Northwestern community? Northwestern students share their experiences with and comment on the rise of anti-Asian racism in the time of COVID-19. Resources for Asian American students: NAKASEC Community Resources for COVID-19 NAKASEC Mutual Aid Fund Donations NU Asian Pacific American Coalition AAPI Incident Report...

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CASSIDY JACKSON: I’m Cassidy Jackson from The Daily Northwestern, and you’re listening to part two of the Seen Not Heard series. If you have not listened to the first part of our series, you might want to go back and get filled in. When we left off, summer 2019 was coming to an end and...

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CASSIDY JACKSON: In December 2018, Weinberg junior Nadia Hundley flew to Atlanta for the Impact National Conference. Impact is an organization dedicated to service and work in cooperation with the African American church. Every year, it hosts programming for its members, and Nadia had plans to attend. On the day of her flight, the weather...

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ALEX CHUN: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Alex Chun, and this is Defining Safe, a podcast about the experiences of marginalized communities on campus.  BEN JUNG: At one point I thought it was really like prison ‘cause you can’t leave. You’re stuck in the same facility for almost two years. And there are a set...

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HALEY FULLER: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Haley Fuller, and this is Defining Safe, a podcast about the experiences of marginalized communities on campus. Like many colleges around the country, Northwestern has an office dedicated to accessibility on campus in order to serve students who need accommodations. That office is AccessibleNU. According to AccessibleNU director...

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ALEX CHUN: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Alex Chun, and this is Defining Safe, a podcast about the experiences of marginalized communities on campus. MARK PARK: The makeup that I did at the pride show, that took so much courage from me. That was so terrifying. I was doing my makeup and I messed up...

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CASSIDY JACKSON: From The Daily Northwestern, I’m Cassidy Jackson. Thanks for tuning in, and welcome to another episode of “Defining Safe.” For this week’s installment, we’re focusing on LGBTQ+ love stories. To start, I sat down with Alexis Reyes and Katherine Berman, fifth years and PhD candidates studying Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences. Alexis and Katherine’s one...

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