{"id":82982,"date":"2022-06-09T14:13:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=82982"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:10:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T14:10:02","slug":"carleton-engiqueers-reframe-community","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/carleton-engiqueers-reframe-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton’s Engiqueers Reframe a Sense of Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton's Engiqueers Reframe a Sense of Community\n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/path>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Just like family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s how Dilsha Appu-Hennadi describes the community of peers involved in Carleton University\u2019s Engiqueers<\/a> (CUE) society for LGBTQ+ engineering students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dilsha Appu-Hennadi, Carleton University’s Engiqueers (CUE) incoming president<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was the first group that helped me personally step my toes in at Carleton and in the engineering program,\u201d says Appu-Hennadi, the incoming president for the society that promotes inclusivity within the Faculty of Engineering and Design<\/a>. \u201cCUE helped me find friends and expand my social circle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CUE first began in 2016 and became Carleton University Students\u2019 Association (CUSA) certified shortly afterwards when the group\u2019s founders started to plan social activities as a way to introduce queer and allied engineers to one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, the group has grown and developed its purpose of bringing together queer and allied students in a safe space, and recently expanded to include non-engineering and non-STEM students as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it was during the pandemic that CUE\u2019s membership really bloomed, with numbers doubling to 100 in the past couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cThat push to go online really forced us to build a new kind of community,\u201d says Appu-Hennadi. \u201cWe became more accessible and found more folks could passively engage with us via tools like Discord [an instant messaging platform].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Now, with more aspects of pre-pandemic life returning, CUE will be building on that digital engagement as it prepares to re-start some of its popular in-person events and initiatives, such as their first-year social night, frosh week film fest, Cupid\u2019s Crush fundraiser and marching in the Capital Pride parade at the end of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Appu-Hennadi is looking forward to what\u2019s next for the group and its members. Among the items on the CUE\u2019s planning list for the coming year are developing a mentorship program and EDI-related workshops and strategizing about how CUE can better advocate for the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe club is just like a child to me, and I want to see it flourish,\u201d says Appu-Hennadi. \u201cWatching CUE grow over the pandemic has made me want to see it grow even further. The possibilities are exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just like family. That\u2019s how Dilsha Appu-Hennadi describes the community of peers involved in Carleton University\u2019s Engiqueers (CUE) society for LGBTQ+ engineering students. \u201cIt was the first group that helped me personally step my toes in at Carleton and in the engineering program,\u201d says Appu-Hennadi, the incoming president for the society that promotes inclusivity within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":83007,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[1931,25],"cu_story_tag":[1930,1918],"class_list":["post-82982","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-social-innovation","cu_story_type-student-experience","cu_story_tag-equity-diversity-and-inclusion","cu_story_tag-faculty-of-engineering-and-design"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/82982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/82982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97270,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/82982\/revisions\/97270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=82982"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=82982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}