News & Blog

Join us in Lexington Nov. 3-5 for the 31st annual MBLGTACC January 18, 2023

Take the Last Bite S3E8: Gallbladders, Imposter Syndrome, and No-Contact with Family January 10, 2023

Book review: R.B's best reads of 2022 January 4, 2023

Take the Last Bite S3E7: You Are Not a Student Loan December 27, 2022

Getting through the holidays: Suggestions for LGBTQ+ folks (wrong answers included, as a treat) December 20, 2022

Skora returns to "Reset" podcast to discuss creating inclusive, LGBTQ-affirming sex ed December 13, 2022

"The fats are talking!" Morton, Higgins, Smoore, and Brooks take on current events, self-love, anti-fatness, and liberation December 8, 2022

Take the Last Bite S3E6: Tracking Patterns That Produced the Club Q Attack November 29, 2022

Coming Dec. 6: 6th annual Trans(Gender) Justice Teach-in with T.K. Morton, Dr. Jonathan Higgins, and Shane McClure Smoore November 25, 2022

Listen (and listen again) to Schuyler Bailar's MBLGTACC keynote on the Take the Last Bite podcast November 15, 2022

Take the Last Bite S3E5: Riding a Trans-Inclusive Tidal Wave with Schuyler Bailar November 15, 2022

Williams Institute's Wilson and UMich's Watkins-Hayes tackle racial foundations of LGBT rights November 3, 2022

The 30th annual MBLGTACC, in photos October 28, 2022

Take the Last Bite S3E4: Cheers to 30 Years of Midwest Queers October 25, 2022

Take the Last Bite S3E3: Building the Next Genderation [redux] October 18, 2022

Take the Last Bite S3E2: Our Post-Roe Reality October 4, 2022

Take the Last Bite S3E1: Big Gay Group Project September 20, 2022

Fatness as Power and Prowess: A Review of “Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives” September 9, 2022

Coming Oct. 27: Wilson and Watkins-Hayes to discuss racial foundations of public policy in virtual conversation September 7, 2022

Schuyler Bailar, Imani Barbarin to keynote 30th annual MBLGTACC September 2, 2022

Design key art for America's oldest and largest LGBTQIA+ college conference August 19, 2022

Coffee lovers fuel $7,600 Pride Month fundraising scoop August 6, 2022

King, Toussaint, and Wickline join Board of Directors July 22, 2022

All episodes streaming now: Seasons 1 and 2 of Take the Last Bite on Apple, Google, and Spotify June 26, 2022

Take the Last Bite S2E9: Right On, Cuee June 21, 2022

Skora appears on Chicago daily podcast to discuss new LGBTQ executive order June 17, 2022

Colectivo Coffee partnership highlighted by CNET, FOX6 Milwaukee June 14, 2022

Take the Last Bite S2E8: I Guess I’ll Vote *shrug* June 7, 2022

Colectivo Coffee selects Institute as recipient of Pride Blend fundraiser June 3, 2022

Impact: Institute releases 2021 annual report May 30, 2022

Take the Last Bite S2E7: Trans Policy Issues: Why Are We Talking about Sports? [redux] May 24, 2022

Take the Last Bite S2E6: Taking Care of the Electrified Meat We Inhabit May 10, 2022

Take the Last Bite S2E5: Making the Personal Political, Locally April 26, 2022

Aspiring MBLGTACC presenters: Register now for our May 1 live chat and Q&A session April 21, 2022

Vision, service, pride: Join the Institute's Board of Directors this spring April 19, 2022

Take the Last Bite S2E4: Binders, Bridesmaid Dresses, and Burritos April 12, 2022

Registration and workshop RFP now open for 30th annual MBLGTACC April 4, 2022

Take the Last Bite S2E3: Trans Joy, in a Meadow, with Daffodils and a Ribeye March 29, 2022

MLive: LGBTQ comics pop-up gets its start at MBLGTACC and Pride festivals March 24, 2022

"Limitless: Queer Activism of the Future"—Introducing our theme for the 30th annual MBLGTACC, plus new track and registration details March 16, 2022

Take the Last Bite S2E2: Let's Get Down to (Queer) Business March 15, 2022

Take the Last Bite S2E1: You're Allowed to Fire Your Therapist March 1, 2022

Season 2 of Take the Last Bite coming March 1 February 15, 2022

Help us design MBLGTACC 2022 workshop tracks! February 4, 2022

What Andy's been watching (and enjoyed) January 12, 2022

Take the Last Bite S1E9: (Small Bites) Ferrets, Farming, and Fat Kid Food January 4, 2022

Take the Last Bite S1E8: (Small Bites) Animation, Grief, and the Gay Outdoors December 21, 2021

Take the Last Bite S1E7: Just(ice) Joking with Hayden Kristal December 7, 2021

Small book, big impact: A review of "We Will Not Cancel Us" November 30, 2021

Coming to Columbus: Announcing the 30th annual MBLGTACC November 18, 2021

Take the Last Bite S1E6: Trans Abolitionist Vision [Redux] November 9, 2021

Take the Last Bite S1E5: Queers Who Make Beers October 26, 2021

Howard, Charles, Jenson, and Jackson in conversation on building liberated futures with queer and trans youth October 23, 2021

Take the Last Bite S1E4: Rural vs. Urban Queerness October 12, 2021

Madison.com: UW, Edgewood students bring queer college conference to Madison October 8, 2021

Madison365.com: Madison to host 29th annual Midwest conference for queer & trans students this weekend October 7, 2021

Take the Last Bite S1E3: Queer Death and Aging September 28, 2021

Take the Last Bite S1E2: Midwest Nice September 14, 2021

Take the Last Bite S1E1: Serving the Last Bite August 31, 2021

Take the Last Bite: Listen to the trailer and subscribe today! August 26, 2021

Take the Last Bite S1 trailer August 25, 2021

Deep dives, deeper breaths: A review of “Undrowned– Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals” May 28, 2021

Impact: Institute releases 2019-20 annual report April 21, 2021

The whole system is guilty: Statement on Chauvin verdict April 20, 2021

Planting the seeds that will nourish and liberate us: Reflections on "The Rise of a Trans Abolitionist Vision" January 13, 2021

New Transgender Justice Teach-in brings together trans and queer abolitionists and organizers October 26, 2020

Announcing the OPE monthly giving program to further advance queer success in the Midwest October 26, 2020

It’s official: MBLGTACC 2021 is moving to October 8-10 September 3, 2020

We support the rebellions and uplift our Black, Afro-Latinx, and Afro-Indigenous siblings June 4, 2020

UW-Madison to host 29th annual MBLGTACC next February February 24, 2020

Channel 3 WWMT: LGBTQ conference comes to WMU to educate college students February 15, 2020

Brooks, Drwencke welcome MBLGTACC attendees to Kalamazoo February 14, 2020

Drwencke helps Cosmo explain what it means to be panromantic January 13, 2020

Impact: Institute releases 2018-19 annual report September 30, 2019

MBLGTACC is heading to Kalamazoo! Western Mich. to host conference in 2020 February 19, 2019

Three rad ways to get involved with MBLGTACC in 2019 December 28, 2018

Guffey to NBC: Oscars should invite Wanda Sykes to host December 13, 2018

Empower queer youth this #GivingTuesday November 27, 2018

An updated name for the nation’s largest conference for queer and trans+ college students October 1, 2018

Institute statement on SCOTUS opinion in Masterpiece case June 4, 2018

Institute raises over $1K on Give OUT Day April 27, 2018

Non-binary visibility and possibility models March 31, 2018

The cost of trans visibility March 31, 2018

Without regrets, apologies, or equivocation March 31, 2018

Trans and gender non-conforming identity: The limit does not exist March 31, 2018

Institute leaders, board members host State of the Region February 24, 2018

In 2019, MBLGTACC heads to Kansas for the first time February 19, 2018

The Gateway: UNO hosts largest LGBTQ+ conference in the Midwest, counter-protests WBC February 18, 2018

Drwencke, Brooks welcome MBLGTACC attendees in Omaha February 17, 2018

Institute to host 2nd annual State of the Region at MBLGTACC February 6, 2018