Since North Carolina passed the controversial bill known as HB-2 at the end of March—requiring transgender people to use bathrooms that coincide with the sex listed on their birth certificate, and forbidding city or county legislatures from passing counter-measures that protect against LGBT discrimination—the state has lost an estimated $40 million in business investment, and researchers project that total annual costs due to the bill could tally $5 billion. On May 9, the US Department of Justice sued North Carolina, stating that the law violated the Civil Rights Act, among others. North Carolina filed two lawsuits the same day to defend the measure.
Among the many performers and businesses that have divested from North Carolina in protest of the law, AIA's South Atlantic Region (including Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina) announced on April 25 that it would no longer hold its September conference in Wilmington. You can read their statement here.
Former AIA Georgia President Gregory Walker, a long-time 'Nector and principal at Houser Walker Architects, joins us to discuss his chapter's decision, and architecture's duty to respond. And as the AIA National Convention is just around the corner, we also discuss AIA Georgia's resolution16-2 to quell unpaid internships.
Listen to episode 64 of Archinect Sessions, "Due Protest":
Shownotes:
Dan Forest, North Carolina's Lieutenent Governor, is an AIA member
Interview with UT Austin's architecture dean Fritz Steiner about Texas' campus carry policy
The effect of Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act on architecture
AIA Georgia's Intern Declaration Resolution
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Interesting bit on NPR a couple of days ago about the rise of single sex baths and how they became encoded in the UBC. Could architects and code officials take the lead in this change?
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