Safety in numbers: an extended list of on-campus safe spaces

Published Sep 22 2011, 04:03 PM by Liz Pelly

This week's Student Survival Guide included a piece of "safe spaces" (Safety in numbers: Campus safe spaces offer comfy couches and open minds) highlighting spaces on campuses where "all classes, genders, sexualities, races, religions, and other beliefs are proactively discussed and accepted." Our print edition listed on-campus centers at BU, BC, Tufts, Harvard, Lesley, MIT, Suffolk, and Emerson. Below is an extended guide.

The BU Women's Resource Center: Open Monday-Friday 10am-6pm and located in the basement of the George Sherman Student Union @ 775 Commonwealth Ave | buwomen@gmail.com | 617-358-5575

The BU Howard Thurman Center

The Boston College Women's Resource Center: Open weekdays 10am-4pm | McElroy Hall Room 141 | facebook.com/bcwrc | wrc@bc.edu | (617) 552-3489

The Boston College Peer Education Network | (617) 552-2572

The Boston College Women’s Resource Center | (617) 552-3489 or (617) 552-6919

The Brandeis Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance

The College of the Holy Cross Relationship Peer Education Program | (508) 793-3363

The College of the Holy Cross Women’s Forum

Emerson EAGLES | Emerson's Alliance for Gays, Lesbians and Everyone | Office #L133A @ 150 Boylston Street | emersoneagle@gmail.com

Emerson College HOPE Peer Educators | (617) 824-8597

Emmanuel College Feminist Coalition

Fisher College Women’s Center

Harvard College Women's Center: Mon, Tue, Thurs, Fri 9am-5pm, Wed 9am-4pm, and M-T-W evenings 6pm-10pm | located in the basement of Canaday Hall | hcwc@fas.harvard.edu | 617-495-4292

The Lesley Women's Center: Open Monday 11-6, Wednesday 11-7, Thursday 11-2 @ 29 Everett Street, Cambridge | lesleywomenscenter.blogspot.com | womenscenter@lesley.edu | phone: 617-349-8013

The Northeastern Feminist Student Organization

Northeastern LGBTQA Campus Services

The Rainbow Lounge @ MIT | MIT Building 50 | 142 Memorial Drive | Tuesday-Friday 12-6 pm | Weekly first-year gathering Tuesday at 6pm | 617-253-5440 | lbgt@mit

Roxbury Community College Women of Strength | (617) 541-5332

Speak Up! Emerson | promoting racial awareness on campus | speakupemerson@gmail.com

Suffolk University Rainbow Alliance | LQBTQ family dinners weekly in Miller Hall’s first floor function room 5:30-7 | Office @ the Diversity Center, Archer 481 | 617.573.832

Simmons College Women’s Center Phone | (617) 521-2443

The Tufts University Women's Center: Open weekdays 9am-5pm @ 55 Talbot Ave, Medford | facebook.com/WomensCtr | 617.627.3184

Wellesley College Peer Advocates Website

Thanks to the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and Feminist Majority Foundation's Feminist Campus for being excellent resources in compiling this list. Did we miss anything? Leave links in the comments.