After putting up an exhibit called Queer Faces of Middlebury in the McCullough Center Gallery, I noticed that the word “queer” turned some people off the project. I personally don’t mind identifying as queer and using it as a personal and political tool to talk about identities and ideas, but ...
All the time we ask queer people what their sexual identity is. We ask their friends, they ask each other, we take guesses. The world is obsessed with finding out who is queer. On the surface level, this doesn’t seem like that big of a social issue. Labels serve a convenient purpose of seeing who ...
In light of the recent release of 50 Shades of Grey and the upcoming Porn Party at the Queer Studies House, we thought a good topic for this week would be a list of porn and kink-related vocabulary and their misconceptions. Some of the terms you will find are very commonplace while others are not. The ...
Last week, I was on my way to town, when a man poked his head out of a navy blue truck and called me a faggot. Mind you, my first reaction to the event was confused: I thought I’d be targeted for the color of my skin and called the n-word, but instead I was called a faggot. Thus, part of me was thrown ...
When people say they are opposed to homosexuality, what are they talking about? What is different about the homosexual lifestyle? Really, the only distinguishing factor of the homosexual lifestyle is the sex, and when people say they’re opposed to homosexuality or even just uncomfortable, really they ...
As a new and existing member of the queer community, I cannot help but comment on the cattiness stereotype that many gay and bisexual men fulfill on campus that perpetuates the hypercompetitive, unwelcome and truly unsafe spaces we breathe in. With the new influx of the Febs on campus integrating into ...
When puberty comes around, little boys learn about the very rewarding experience of becoming a man. It is the time of muscle building, getting hair on your chest and get- ting a man’s voice. Everything gets bigger and manlier and what’s better than being a man in today’s patriarchy? Nothing. But ...
I’m gay. I’m Mexican. I’ve never been both, but I guess I am. This last week Chris Woods, Program Administrator at the New York University LGBTQ Student Center, came to the College and gave some presentations on the intersection of identities pertaining to faith, ethnicity and sexuality and how ...
Something didn't sit right with me as I left the Big Freedia concert. I don’t know whether it was the inherent guilt that comes with twerking for two hours in a wife beater and tight overalls or something deeper. In attempts to counter cultural appropriation and allow black bodies to claim back their ...
It doesn’t take long to find thousands of pages online relating to how size doesn’t matter. You can find articles about how the most sensitive areas in the vagina are only in the first two inches, about how it’s girth not length, about how large penises are unappealing, or any other of the many ...