The Georgetown University Student Association completed its third and final month of What’s a Hoya for the academic year on Tuesday. The theme of “pluralism in action” centered on diversity on campus and included issues of race, socioeconomic class, sexual orientation, and gender.
Speakers provided a variety of perspectives on diversity. “Gender can be exploded onto a spectrum,” said Thomas Lloyd (SFS ‘15), who spoke at the Monday session on topics such as cross-dressing and the gender binary.
“I truly believe that human nature wants to categorize people into boxes to comfort itself,” said Shilpa Chandran (SFS ‘15), another speaker during a talk on intersectionality.
According to Megan Murday (SFS ‘15), one of the What’s a Hoya coordinators, the program coordinators took into account feedback from the previous two months and is incorporating “greater opportunities for students to discuss the topics during the session itself.”
