UPCOMING EVENTS

We are planning our future events! If you have an event idea, email spectrum@lse.ac.uk.

At the Intersections of Queerness and Disability: DAWN and Spectrum Q&A with Lucy Webster | Tuesday 17 March | 12.15pm to 1.30pm | The Hall-Carpenter room (SAW.3.02)

Join us for a conversation with acclaimed political journalist and author Lucy Webster. Lucy Webster writes for leading publications including The Guardian, The Sunday Times and the Financial Times, where she focuses on disability issues and social justice. She is the author of The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman and is a prominent anti‑ableism campaigner working across journalism, publishing, events, community organising and social media to help build a more accessible and inclusive society.

At this informal, Q&A‑style event, Lucy will speak candidly about the realities of being visibly disabled and queer in Britain today, offering insight into representation, identity, and the barriers still faced by disabled people.

Thanks to generous support from the EDI team, a light lunch will be available. Sign‑ups are mandatory so we can confirm numbers. If you register but your plans change, please let us know as soon as possible.

Tuesday 17 March
⏰ 12.15 pm
Hall-Carpenter Room (SAW 3.02)

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LGBTQIA+ Role Models Directory Launch Event | Tuesday 31 March | 6pm to 8pm

Join us for the launch of the new LSE LGBTQIA+ Role Models Directory, co-hosted by LSE Spectrum, LSE Generate, LSE Careers, PAGE, and the LSESU LGBTQIA+ Society.

This relaxed, social event celebrates the launch of a new page on the LSE website showcasing LGBTQIA+ role models from across the School. The directory is designed to help students and staff connect, share experiences, and learn from one another across the LSE community.

The evening will include:

• Informal networking with students, staff and role models
• Free food and drinks
• A Human Lending Library, where you can have short, informal conversations with role models to hear about their experiences, career journeys and identities in a supportive setting

This event is open to everyone, including allies. Whether you are curious, supportive, or looking for connection, you are very welcome.

Why do we have an LGBTQIA+ Role Models Directory?

LGBTQIA+ people work and study across all parts of LSE. This directory provides a network of informal contacts for the LSE community to share experiences, offer support, and learn from each other.

Our role models are committed to being out and visible members of the LGBTQIA+ community and to championing inclusion at LSE. The directory is one way we are working to make the School a more welcoming and supportive place for everyone.

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Intersectional monthly book club | Multiple dates

Calling all book worms and especially book BEAVERS! Join our monthly intersectional book club, co-hosted with EmbRace, Power and DAWN. 

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The Book Beavers intersectional book club | Thursday 23 April | 12.30pm to 1.30pm | LSE Library Collaborative Space (LRB 3.03)

We are thrilled to share with you the details of our next event: a Meet the Author and Q&A with Professor Lea Ypi, award-winning Albanian academic and author. Lea has kindly accepted our invitation to join us over lunch to tell us more about her latest book Indignity and answer your burning questions!

Our next read: Indignity by Lea Ypi

Thursday 23 April

⏰ 12.30–1.30pm

LSE Library Collaborative Space (LRB 3.03)

️TICKETED EVENT WITH 4 HARDBACK COPIES OF INDIGNITY TO WIN!

When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told records of her grandmother’s youth were destroyed in the early days of communism in Albania. But there Leman was with her husband, Asllan Ypi: glamorous newlyweds while World War II raged. By turns epic and intimate, profound and gripping, Indignity explores what it means to survive in an age of extremes. It reveals the fragility of truth, both personal and political, and the cost of decisions made against the tide of history. Ultimately, Lea Ypi asks, what do we really know about the people closest to us? And with what moral authority do we judge the acts of previous generations?

The book covers some of the following themes:

• Dignity
• The fragility of truth
• Memory
• Surviving political extremes

️BOOK GIVEAWAY! Register on Eventbrite by noon on 23 March to be entered into our raffle for a chance to win 1 of 4 hardback copies of “Indignity”. Winners will be chosen at random and receive their copies in time for the Easter break - and can have their copies signed by Lea at the event!

Have you read Lea Ypi’s books before or heard her speak at a recent LSE event? We’d love to hear your thoughts on our next pick! 

All Book Beavers are welcome - whether you’ve read the book cover to cover, just started it, or haven’t read it at all.

Catering is provided for this event, so come with your appetite (for food and stories!)  

BOOK YOUR SPOT HERE 

(this event has a limited capacity of 50 people)

Trans and non-binary support group | Third Wednesday of every month from February to April | In person only

Are you a trans+ or non-binary student or staff member? Join our newly-started support group! The aim of this group is to:

• Empower trans and non-binary staff and students through forging networks and shared community 
• Equip trans and non-binary staff and students with the tools to protect themselves and others in the community and to challenge negative representations of queerness in their professional and personal lives 
• Create a safe space for trans and non-binary people to share the struggles that they are facing in a non-confrontational way. 

The support group aims to meet on the third Wednesday of every month during lunchtime (between 1pm and 2.30pm) from February to April (18 February/18 March/15 April). The group is designed to build on themes so we would prefer if people could aim to come to all three sessions which will include:

• A zine-making workshop to challenge and reclaim representations of queerness in the media
• Active bystander training
• A queer poetry workshop and reading.

You must identify as trans and/or non-binary, gender fluid or genderqueer to join the support group. Please fill out your details below. You will be contacted by a member of the organising team with further details.

Sign up now

News and Statements 

• Read the LSE Supreme Court Ruling Listening and Engagement Summary Report
• UK Supreme Court Ruling: Read Spectrum's statement on the Supreme Court's ruling.

• Stonewall: Read Spectrum's joint statement with the Students' Union on the School's decision to disaffiliate from Stonewall.

• Read our Memo on Stonewall and Academic Freedom.

Microsoft Teams space for Spectrum members and supporters

Did you know Spectrum is on Teams? Our channel provides a safe and inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ colleagues and allies. 

To join the Teams channel, please email spectrum@lse.ac.uk.

Have an idea for an event?

LSE Spectrum will be planning a range of activities over the course of the academic year. If there is anything in particular you would like us to do, please let us know by emailing us at spectrum@lse.ac.uk.

Spectrum Zoom/Teams backgrounds

Show your Pride in all your online meetings/classes! Download the LSE Spectrum backgrounds.