The Instagram account @su.contraceptives appeared during spring quarter 2022, advertising an informative booth providing sexual health information and free condoms to the student body. The account includes informative posts about sexually transmitted diseases, encouragement to use contraception and memes critical of Seattle University’s contraception distribution policy.
Julia Lugos, a third-year environmental studies and design major, explained that as part of a UCOR 1300 assignment, their group was tasked to create a social media campaign about a local issue. Their project was dedicated to sexual health awareness on campus.
“We went hyper-local with this issue, calling out Seattle U for their policies,” Lugos said.
The 2018 Code of Student Conduct explicitly prohibited distribution of contraception. The current policy is not found in the 2022-2023 student code of conduct,…
