Message from the APS Presidential Team​

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Resources for Inclusivity in​ Memphis​

Links to resources to help you plan a safe and inclusive trip while at Plant Health 2024.​​​

LGBTQ+ Friendly Restaurants & Businesses

• ​​Memphis Travel ​LGBTQ+ ​Resource Guide
• ​​​​Choose 901 Memphis LGBTQ+ Organizations & Businesses​​
  
• OUT Memph​​is ​li​​​stings​
  

Memphis Organizations Supporting the LGBTQ+ Community

• ​OUT Memphis​
  
• ​MidSouth LGBT Chamber of Commerce
  
• Memphis Police LGBTQ Liaison
  
  

Meeting Location Selection Resources

Here are some links to resources that have helped APS leadership expand their thinking about meeting locations and hosting Plant Health 2024 in Memphis, Tennessee. ​​

STEM Journals

• How scientific conferences are responding to abortion bans and anti-LGBTQ+ laws
• Scientific conferences mull relocating over abortion access
• For scientists, Roe's end raises concerns about personal safety and professional choices
  
  

Academic Journals

• To Boycott or Not? Academic Conferences Face Pressure to Avoid Abortion-Hostile States
• Should conferences stay put or relocate? It's complicated
  
  

Other Scientific Organizations

Chemical Engineering

• ​​​​​Amid increasing anti-trans legislation, where should scientific societies hold their conferences?

Medical Professional Societies 

• Holding Medical Professional Society Scientific Meetings Only in States That Protect Abortion Rights
• ACOG Drops 2023 New Orleans Meeting Over Abortion Concerns
• Clinicians Call for Meetings to be Moved Out of States Limiting Abortion Access
• Yale physicians call on medical societies to boycott states that ban abortion
• Call for a Move or Boycott of Big Texas Cancer Meeting
• Inclusive Conferences Working Group Recommendation
  

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Additional Articles

• ​​Changing scientific meetings for the better - Nature Human Behaviour
  
• Discriminatory North Carolina Restroom Law Prompts Major Scientific Society to Move Annual Meeting
• Pressure is Building on Professional Groups to Pull Conventions From States With Abortion Bans
• Opinion | A Plea From More Than 100 Medical Professionals: Boycott Anti-Abortion States (Published 2022)
  
• ​​Boycott! – PMC
• The Social Responsibility of Professional Societies​
  

• Opinion | Blue States Want Red States to Face Consequences, but Travel Bans Are Harmful
• Stacey Abrams Reiterates Opposition to Georgia Boycott Over New Voter Laws: 'My Message Is Stay and Fight'
• ​ICYMI: Fair Fight Founder Stacey Abrams New USA Today Op-Ed: Don't Boycott Corporations Over Voting Rights Yet. First Press Them To Speak Up.​