If you don’t know anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19 at Smith this academic year, I’m here to tell you what to expect if…
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La celebración comenzó como una respuesta de los estudiantes a un incidente de odio en el campus en los años 90 en el que los escalones de la Casa Wilson estaban marcados con comentarios homofóbicos para que todos los vieran. Décadas más tarde, Celebration 2021 contó con bailes cursis de Britney Spears con interludios de remixes de Macklemore y poesía hablada: había un sentido de orgullo no solo en lo queer en sí, sino también en la diversión de pertenecer a una comunidad queer. El brillo, el glamour, los atuendos: los estudiantes adoptaron esto como un medio para crear más diversión, más de esa alegría contagiosa que se extendió por todo el quad. La celebración usa la diversión como una especie de liberación, pero lo que es más, estamos pasando de lo clandestino a lo desvergonzado.
In August of 1965, former news editor of The Sophian, Marsha Cohen ’68 was escorted off the set of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” Then…
Celebration began as a student response to a hateful incident on campus in the ’90s in which the Wilson House steps were chalked with homophobic…
At the end of October, a 13-year-old pug named Noodle took over the internet.
It’s a pretty simple story: I was a visionary. A less persistent soldier might have given up: quarantined in a city straddling the Connecticut River with no suitable lovers to straddle me. There were slim pickings on campus and the townies were grody — what’s a girl to do?
As a queer Smithie, I feel compelled to speak out after reading Mills alumnae citing Smith College as another HWC stigmatized by queerness.
“Sorry to bother you again!” “Don’t apologize! You know, since coming to a historically women’s college, I’ve noticed that you all-“ “Say sorry too much?”…
Trigger Warning: This article contains mention of mental illness and suicide that some may find distressing.