Rally Title

March 6, 2025 • 5:00 PM

The MIT Rally for Gender-Inclusive Rights

MIT Student Center Steps

84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

MIT Student Center Building
MIT Student Center Building
Rally Location: Student Center Steps
Rally Location: Student Center Steps

All are Welcome!

On March 6, 2025 at 5pm, GW6 and TransMIT's Rally for Gender-Inclusive Rights will kickoff a new series of events hosted on the MIT campus, on the steps of the Student Center at 84 Massachusetts Avenue. Together we will create a safe space for our threatened communities of women and gender minorities to find solidarity. Together, we will use our voices to protest any and all discriminatory attacks on our rights, to connect attendees with groups that can offer them the resources to make it through difficult times, and to connect local advocacy and mutual aid groups with attendees that may wish to join with their efforts or offer their time to volunteer.

You will hear from experienced activists, describing what they've learned from long-standing efforts to fight the forces that be. Community members whose rights are endangered by gender-based discrimination and persecution will have the chance to speak up, share their unique experiences, and help raise calls to action in the name of their struggles.

You need bring nothing but yourself, as water and basic aid will be provided, but feel free to bring any signs or other non-violent messages that express why you choose to come and fight today, and forever. In solidarity.

Fem Flapole Pride Flapoles Trans Flapoles

Program

Nikko Stevens, PhD (they/them)

Postdoctoral Researcher, Data + Feminism Lab

Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT

"Resisting the Colonization of Our Imaginations"

Catherine D'Ignazio

Associate Professor of Urban Science & Planning

Director, Data + Feminism Lab

Department of Urban Studies & Planning, MIT

"Solidarity Across Genders"

Sonny Oram

Owner and founder of Qwear fashion

"A poem for the community"

Tables at the resource fair

MIT LBGTQ+ and Women and Gender Services

Presented by:

Lauryn McNair, MSW

Assistant Dean of LBGTQ+, Women and Gender Services

MIT QStaff

The MIT Queer Staff Employee Resource Group

Presented by:

Rachel Ornitz

Communications Coordinator to the stars | MIT AeroAstro

Riot

Mutual aid is Magic

Harm reduction and resources

Food not bombs

In protest of war and poverty;

Food is a right, not a privilege

Qwear Fashion

LGBTQIA+ style incubator

Presented Dismantle me to:

mutua.nyc

infrastructure for community care

building digital tools for mutual aid networks, centered on trust, equity, and collective resilience

@mutua.nyc

Presented by:

Johan Michalove Substack

Mutua.nyc Founder & Lead Developer

Sponsors

Organizers

Julia Turcotti portrait

Julia Turcotti

Co-organizer

MIT CSAIL PhD Student, TransMIT social media coordinator, GW6 Copresident, Massachusetts Transgender Unity Coalition co-organizer

Julia Turcotti portrait

Johan Michalove

Tech and Online Presence Manager

Cornell Information Science PhD student, website manager, experienced in social impact technology (FireAid, mutua)

Melody Tremallo

Melody Tremallo

Program advisor

Texas Transgender Unity Coalition Rally Leader

Dr. Ellen-Adele Harper

Dr. Ellen-Adele Harper

Program Advisor

Environmentalist, writer, activist

Rally Flyer