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Student Group Affiliates

The GSC’s Affiliate Program offers applications for advising of a group by GSC staff, as well as use of the GSC conference room to host Affiliate group meetings and programs. These groups that are officially associated with the GSC are listed on this page have the support of the GSC in many ways: groups are advised by GSC staff, meetings and events are promoted on the GSC calendar and weekly bulletin,  and often take the opportunity offered by the GSC to use the space and conference room to host such meetings and events.

If your group would like to apply to be a GSC Affiliate, please submit this application. A GSC staff member will contact you shortly thereafter to follow up about your application.

Austin Bisexual Collective (ABC)

  • We are a student organization at UT for those who are bisexual, pansexual, sexually fluid, omnisexual, non-monosexual, or allies to those communities. Our purpose is to provide a supportive and social environment for our members. We promote education and increased visibility in the UT community.
  • Email: awesomebicollective@gmail.com
  • Check out our Facebook page!

embrACE

  • Do you identify as ace/aro? Are you looking for a cool group, a safe space, or a bunch of friends? You’re in luck! We can’t wait to meet you!
  • Contact us for information about the weekly meetings.
  • Email: embracestudentgroup@gmail.com

eQual MBAs at McCombs

  • eQual MBAs at McCombs exists to foster and support the LGBT and ally community within the graduate business school community. We also hope to broaden our connection with other LGBT and ally student groups across campus.
  • Contact us for more information about this group!
  • Email: eQualMBAs@mccombs.utexas.edu

Feminist Action Project

  • Our values as feminists include the intentional intersectional gender justice framework that strives to combat oppression and promote equity with awareness. We aim to exemplify these values by focusing on moving beyond binaries, valuing individual experiences, deconstructing privileges, and learning from history. We hope to accomplish these goals through openness and discussion, collective learning and engagement with other social justice communities, self-education and collaboration.
  • Email: feministactionproject@gmail.com
  • Check out our Facebook page!
  • Check out our blog! You can find the archive of FAP’s “Musings of a #lonelyfeminist” Zine here too!

Feminist Latinx Organization Empowering Society (FLORES)

  • FLORES is about embracing and learning about Latinx feminism and express the importance it’s needed in today’s society. We are an inclusive service oriented organization with a focus on aiding local and global Latinx movements and feminist issues. Some of our future events include volunteering in East Austin and mentoring elementary school students, holding fundraisers for global feminist issues, and educating and informing UT students about the importance of Latinx matters. 
  • Email: utexasflores@gmail.com

Gamma Rho Lambda (GRL)

  •  The University of Texas’ colony of Gamma Rho Lambda is the school’s first all-inclusive LBGTQIA sorority. Our purpose is to provide a safe community and family for all members, as well as advance the place of LBGTQIA people on campus. Our goals are to become well-established on campus, as well as set a solid foundation for the many classes that will follow ours. We believe that if we work hard to establish a foundation for the colony now, our siblings and predecessors will have a better chance of success. Furthermore, we hope to become well established on campus so that we may serve as a role model for the queer community of UT, but also demonstrate to the community that UT is a inclusive and safe place for queer students. Our overall mission is to develop exceptional scholars, leaders, and sagacious women and people through the unique bond of queer siblinghood . As non-exclusionary siblings, we will strive to provide a sanctuary for queer and progressive people in order to uplift one another. Through dedicated service, spirit, and siblinghood, we will strive to be amiable and wise people while altering the campus and the community around us into a positive and safe place for queer and progressive people.
  • For more information, visit GRL’s website or Facebook page and check the calendar at the beginning of every semester for rush dates and information!

GSC Student Leadership Committee (SLC)

  • The Student Leadership Committee’s mission is to spread the word about the GSC on campus, to be a student voice of the GSC, spread awareness of the GSC as a women’s center, and promote intersectionality and awareness in the space.
  • gsc@austin.utexas.edu
  • Apply for SLC!

HangOut

  • A Student Organization at UT Austin that strives to provide a weekly space for LGBTQA students to meet and network.
  • Contact the GSC for more information.
  • Email: txhangout@gmail.com

Haus of Texas

  • Haus of Texas is a student organization that welcomes everyone and exists to provide entertainment and space for students to express themselves through the art of drag at UT. We will do this by hosting balls, drag shows, bring in speakers, film screenings, wig/make-up tutorials, watch parties and much more!
  • Email: houseoftexasut@gmail.com

HERE

  • We’re Healing. Expressing. Resisting. Existing.
  • UT Austin’s student run organization focused on amplifying the intersectional voices of the most censored and silenced identities on campus.
  • Email: hereatx@gmail.com
  • Twitter: @HEREatx

iSchool Pride

  • iSchool Pride works within the School of Information to advocate for and foster a more inclusive environment for iSchool students as well as promote LGBTQIA+ events and resources among the iSchool community. We organize and promote training for students and staff, host film screenings, social events, and more.
  • You can keep up with iSchool Pride by joining our listserv:  ischool-pride-ut
  • Contact us through ischoolprideut@gmail.com or join our FB group.

Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (oSTEM)

  • A professional organization that provides LGBTQA STEM students with corporate networking opportunities and workshops on promoting diversity and equality in the work place.
  • Email us to connect with the group at gsc@austin.utexas.edu.

OUTlaw

  • OUTLaw is a social and political organization designed to raise awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues. Through a number of activities, including panel discussions and guest lectures, OUTLaw examines the intersection of sexual orientation, gender and the law and provides a forum within the law school to discuss matters of importance to LGBT law students and their friends.
  • http://sites.utexas.edu/outlaw/
  • Email: outlaw.txlaw@gmail.com

Outletes and Allies

  • Founded in November of 2018. Outletes was created as a safe space for all LGBTQIA+ student-athletes and allies at the University of Texas at Austin. Outletes partner with local LGBTQ+ businesses and nonprofits to help give back to our community. They are here and queer and very proud. Join them at one of their next monthly meetings!
  • Email contact: utoutletes@gmail.com
  • Check out their website: utoutletes.wixsite
  • Check out their Instagram-utoutletes
  • Check out their Twitter- @toutletes
  • Check out their Facebook-UT Outletes and Allies

Pride Policy Alliance

  • The Pride Policy Alliance is an inclusive LGBTQA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Ally) organization that aims to increase the visibility of LGBTQ issues at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, educate our peers, and advocate for policies that advance equality at the LBJ School, the University of Texas at Austin, and the greater Austin community. The Pride Policy Alliance organizes social, advocacy, and educational events throughout the semester.
  • Email: pridepolicyalliance@gmail.com
  • Check out our Facebook page!

Queer and Asian (Q&A)

Q++

  • Q++ is a student run organization out of the department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin. Our mission is promoting the academic success, social enrichment and community building for LGBTQIA people in tech at UT. Q++ fosters deep connections through our mentorship program, enhances learning through our study sessions and provides a place for students to be themselves at our socials.
  • Check out our Website!
  • Check out our Facebook!

Queer Business Student Association (QBSA)

  • The Queer Business Student Association is a professional organization that provides LGBTQA+ students with networking opportunities through corporate interaction and community-building events. Students will learn about career opportunities within various industries and ultimately work towards ending discrimination in the workplace.
  • Email: texasqbsa@gmail.com

Queer Graduate Student Association (QGSA)

  • The Queer Grad student Alliance is an agency UT’s Graduate Student Assembly. QGSA seeks to promote community across the entire UT campus for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning graduate students and their allies. They seek to provide social events and other relevant programming to give graduate students the opportunity to connect outside of their individual colleges.
  • Email:utqgsa@gmail.com
  • Visit our website for more information.
  • Check out our Facebook page!

Queer & Trans People of Color Agency (QTPOCA)

  • QTPOCA exists to contribute to the self-empowerment, education, and visibility of the issues of Queer & Trans People of Color and our associated communities at the University of Texas at Austin.
  • Email: qpocatexas@gmail.com

Queer and Trans Student Alliance (QTSA)

  • Queer & Trans Students Alliance, an agency of The University of Texas at Austin Student Government, exists to foster leadership within lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities at the university. In addition to advocating for LGBTQ students and hosting community-wide events, the Alliance frequently works with other LGBTQ and social justice organizations at the university to provide a wide variety of opportunities to get involved. Events that the Queer & Trans Students Alliance coordinates include: Pride Week, Transgender Day of Remembrance, an annual conference
    on Queer and Trans inclusive feminism, as well as others planned throughout the year.
  • Email: texasqtsa@gmail.com
  • Check out our Facebook page!
  • Check out our Website!

Silk Club

Strings & Things

Texas Orange Jackets

  •  Texas Orange Jackets (OJs) has traditionally been the oldest women’s service organization at UT Austin. Membership currently consists of women and non-binary folks dedicated to upholding the tenets of service, leadership, and scholarship. We are a service organization that serves as official hosts of the University of Texas at Austin. All members of OJs dedicate themselves to upholding the three Orange Jackets tenets: scholarship, leadership, and service. Orange Jackets membership devotes itself to serving the university, Austin community, and supporting individual members’ initiatives. We spend countless hours volunteering at The Settlement Home for Children, our primary philanthropy for over two decades.

Texas Rising at UT Austin

  •  Texas Rising at UT Austin is a progressive nonpartisan political group whose goal is to civically engage students on issues such as LGBTQ+ liberties, voting rights, and public education. We register voters, grassroots lobby, and advocate on behalf of progressive issues. Through the Texas Rising program, we aim to give leadership training to aspiring young student activists so they have the tools to effectively organize their communities on behalf of progressive issues.
  • Check out our Facebook page!

Trans Thursday

  •  We provide space for trans, genderqueer, agender, bigender, genderfluid, and gender questioning peoples to build community.
  • Contact the GSC to connect with our listserv. gsc@austin.utexas.edu
  • We meet in the GSC every Thursday afternoon.

Undergraduate Women in Physics (UWIP)

  • Undergraduate Women in Physics is an academic organization that aims to promote equity and equality within physics. UWIP focus on women, LGBTQ+, and other underrepresented minorities within physics because, unfortunately, women and other minorities are still marginalized within the physics community. UWIP provides members with a supportive community where they can share their experiences, advice, and ideas. Additionally, UWIP provides outreach opportunities both within UT and the greater Austin area as well as resources for career development to ensure our member’s success.
  • Email: ut.uwip@gmail.com
  • Join our Facebook group!

Voices Against Violence Student Org

  • VAV’s sponsored student organization is open to any enrolled student at UT Austin. The VAV Student Org plans events during Relationship Violence Prevention Month (October) and Sexual Violence Prevention Month (April), including our annual survivor speak-outs: Breaking the Silence and Take Back the Night. Students organize volunteers during events and promote events and campaigns on campus via class announcements, social media and tabling on campus. We host conversations about current examples of interpersonal violence cases and prevention during our meetings.
  • Learn more and join via the Facebook group: www.tinyurl.com/vavstudentorg
  • voicesagainstviolence@austin.utexas.edu

Women’s Resource Agency (WRA)

Women of Excellence (WOE)

  • This organization fosters distinction in: Leadership, Diversity, Mentorship, and Service. This organization consists of a mentorship program that includes incoming students to the university.
  • By application only. Email us for more information.
  • Email: texasWOE@gmail.com
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