About Us

Our mission is to celebrate queerness at any and every step of a University of Arkansas student’s journey at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Vision Statement: The Lavender Society will help build a campus culture in which queer bodies can feel not only safe, but also celebrated. Hetero bodies have always been celebrated through traditional activities like marriage and graduation. Queer bodies have not—be it families refusing to attend their graduation after knowing their identity, or religious and state institutions precluding them from marrying, or even recognizing their name and gender.