CAMBRIDGE — At Harvard University, students are being taught that gender identity can change from day-to-day.
So proclaims the college's office of BGLTQ Student Life, in a flier circulated this past week. The school-sponsored guide, a copy of which was obtained by the Campus Reform website, asserts that "for many people — cis and transgender — expression, identity, and self-understanding can change from day to day."
BOSTON – "I'm here because Alzheimer's discriminates against women," Maria Shriver said in her opening remarks at the Brain Health Fair on Friday at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The 61-year-old former first lady of California and NBC correspondent has been raising awareness about the fatal neurological disease since her father was diagnosed with it in 2003. He died in 2011.
Despite it being her father that suffered from Alzheimer's, much of the work Shriver has done focuses on women, who are disproportionately affected by the disease. She founded the Women's Alzheimer's Movement, dedicated to researching Alzheimer's, and why two-thirds of those diagnosed are women. "If women spent as much time thinking about their brains as we do about our fashion, our lips, eyes, and thighs, then we might be able to beat this thing," Shriver told her audience, a crowd including doctors, researchers, caregivers, and patients.
