Strands of Pride flags, buckets of beads, rolls of yarn and other crafting materials acted as invitations to find a community at the Colorado State University Pride Resource Center’s crafting event.
Hosted Jan. 28, the center held “We Craft it” Wednesday, an event part of a tradition called Rainbow Ram Welcome. Since its start in 2020, Rainbow Ram Welcome takes place at the start of every fall and spring semester and serves as an avenue to promote the center’s services and mentoring programs.
“We know it can be intimidating sometimes to, like, come in the center because you don’t know who’s in there or if you’ll meet people or (if) people will make assumptions about how you identify,” said Maggie Hendrickson, director of the Pride Resource Center…