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10/1/2024 0 Comments Handel'sYuting (she/they)We drove to Handel’s under gloomy sky
By the highway in suburban Indianapolis For a four scoop sampler
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10/1/2024 0 Comments A Lake Frozen OverAndrea Bustillo (she/he/they)From your chest
there’s a hint of a ripple, a dip in the ice and snow. 4/1/2024 0 Comments UndefinedLucas Fuller The child breathes deeply, gripping clothes that, despite being the perfect size, do not fit. They stand outside a circle of mushrooms, deep in the forest, far from home. Doubts fill a tiny mind, clamoring for attention. Turn back. You know what is expected of you. They all told you not to. You know you’re not supposed to. It’s unseemly. It’s dangerous. It’s disgusting. It’s wrong it’s wrong its wrong it’s wrong IT’S WRO–
Padma (she/her)Last year, I wrote an article called “10 Gay Watches” highlighting my favorite queer representation in Western media. I stand by what I said when I mentioned that media is so much more interesting to me when characters are from a wide range of backgrounds, whether it’s a diversity in sexuality, gender identity, race, or socioeconomic status. It’s not only important for me to learn about different identities, but also having representation of myself on screen, normalizing my existence and opening up my experience to a wider audience. Being a minority meant this was challenging to find; however, I’ve compiled another “Masterlist of Media” of well done South Asian queer representation!
3/1/2024 0 Comments lovesickmorena (she/her) I had hoped this feeling would get better with time. Unfortunately for me, I was still awake at 3am, waiting for a phone call that would never actually come. Just waiting for someone to need me again. No, not need. But want me again. Someone who would willingly choose to be with me.
God, I miss having someone to hold this late. Someone to hold me, rather. It’s the silence that always gets to me. This apartment is so goddamn quiet. 2/7/2024 0 Comments Badhaai Do and Gay MasculinityPadma (she/her)One evening during winter break, I came downstairs, and was met with a familiar sight: my mom relaxing after work by watching something on the TV. Seeing the screen and hearing the Hindi language, I assumed it was another Hindi drama series that she likes, and almost left without saying anything. Luckily, she told me she was watching Badhaai Do (translation: “Congratulations”), a 2022 movie that had just begun. I decided to watch it with her, possibly the best decision I made over break.
12/10/2023 0 Comments of MemoryAngel White I remember being born my senior year of high school. It was February, and I was headed to the library for my final period of the day. The teacher never seemed to check attendance for the class, so most of my classmates would skip the period and go home early. On this particular day, I was completely alone and wasn’t very interested in doing homework so I decided to look around the library. After a while, I found a queer fiction section. This wasn’t the first time I had come to this part of the library (I did so almost every week since I figured out I was queer). On this particular trip, I noticed a book: Jeff Garvin’s Symptoms of Being Human. I looked it up, and found out it starred a genderfluid protagonist, something I had never seen before. When classes ended that day I checked out my new find and went home. By the end of day (well, technically, by like 3 AM the next morning) I had read all 352 pages of that book and was in the middle of a serious identity crisis.
Elessar Younglove (they/fae) If I have learned anything as a communications major it’s that visibility matters. Seeing someone who looks like you, and seeing someone seeing someone who doesn’t, on screen impacts how audiences think about and interact with others. LGBTQ+ representation is on the rise, but it has a long way to go, especially for queer people of color. Lack of representation has various consequences. It can promote prejudices, particularly unfavorable ones, about particular ethnic or cultural groups. Shining a light on white queer people denies the lives and experiences of queer people of color. If Arabic people are shown to only be cishet, then viewers assume that all members of this group must take this route because they only perceive negative stereotypes or a lack of representation in these groups.
5/1/2023 0 Comments the dishesFranklin Lasseni think about my gender
when i'm washing the dishes my favorite chore when i was a kid the only one i ever did |
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