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5/3/2022 0 Comments

Sayaka Miki My Beloved: LGBTQ+ People and Parasocial Attachments

Elessar Younglove (They/She/Fae)

     Growing up, almost all televised romances I saw were cisgender, heterosexual relationships. According to the media, people like me didn’t exist. Queer people were not discussed in children’s media. They certainly didn’t appear as characters. According to the theory of invisibility, when a group is underrepresented in the media, individuals of that group are deprived of signals or tactics about how to be a person. I didn’t know I could like girls and boys as a child because I didn’t know such a person could exist. I certainly didn’t think that person was me.

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5/3/2022 0 Comments

My Coming Out Story

​Elessar Younglove (They/She/Fae)

     My name is Elessar Younglove. I’m 23 years old. I’m a Taurus, I’m bisexual, and I’m nonbinary. My pronouns are they/she/fae. And I’m gonna give a trigger warning for internalized homophobia/biphobia, regular homophobia, bullying, suicide, and sexual assault.

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4/1/2022 0 Comments

“Masculinity is Fake, But I Use it Every Day”: Queer and Trans Students on Healthy Masculinity, Abolishing the Gender Binary, and How We All Have Daddy Issues, I Guess?

Grey Weinstein (he/they)
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An interview transcription.

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4/1/2022 0 Comments

Queer History of the Suffrage Movement

Elessar Younglove (They/She/Fae)

March 8th is International Women’s Day. Women have overcome various obstacles, and continue the fight for equality today. One example of women’s fight for equality was the women’s suffrage movement. The women’s suffrage movement was an almost century long movement, credited to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was also a safe haven for queer women.

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4/1/2022 0 Comments

“Trans Folks Lead the Way”: How LGBTQ+ Students Are Reimagining Masculinity

Grey Weinstein (he/they)

If I’m being completely honest, I’ve never really liked men. I’d like to say that this isn’t my fault, but that’s not entirely true. It started when I was in early middle school, when I first started researching feminism online. (Yes, I know how that sounds, but bear with me; I promise this is not a rant about how feminism turns your daughters into angry, hairy man-haters.) Luckily for me, the online activists who first introduced me to the concept of feminist thought proudly proclaimed that their feminism was intersectional. I’ll be the first to admit that the rhetoric I encountered was far from radical or even actively anti-racist– it would be years before I started engaging critically with concepts like Marxism and abolitionism– but it introduced me to ideas like white privilege, intersectionality, and the importance of centering trans women and women of color in feminist action. My online feminist spaces were far from perfect, but while they probably don’t reflect my current political views, they were a useful stepping stone to getting me where I am today, ideologically speaking. (That is to say, a raging, foaming-at-the-mouth queer feminist leftist.)

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4/1/2022 0 Comments

Celebrating International Asexuality Day

Edha Shirodkar (she/her)

Even in the LGBTQ+ community, asexuality is an invisible identity, one that doesn’t get a lot of recognition and is often misunderstood, stemming mainly from its medicalization. Creating more awareness about asexuality and the authentic experiences of asexual people is important, especially when there are so many misconceptions. So when April 6, 2021 became the inaugural International Asexuality Day, it marked a significant moment for the asexual community.

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3/1/2022 0 Comments

Fear With Me My Body:On Applying a Trans and Nonbinary Perspective to Body and Possession Horror

Olivia Spicer (they/she)

Recently I had the distinct pleasure of witnessing the power that is Carmen Maria Machado speaking. A good friend of mine, who runs a very queer and very delightful “bookstagram” account, invited me out to go to Machado’s talk on a cold Friday morning, when the sidewalks were lined with ice and I nearly slipped four times. It was free to attend and I had been absolutely stunned by Machado’s gorgeous memoir “In the Dream House” and graphic novel “In the Low, Low Woods” when I read them in the summer of 2021. Naturally, accepting the invitation to listen to one of my favorite authors' talk was almost an instantaneous decision–dangerous walk there and all.

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3/1/2022 0 Comments

The Women of the Lesbian Chicana Movement

morena (she/her)

“As a mestiza I have no country, my homeland casts me out, yet all countries are mine because I am every woman’s sister or potential lover. As a lesbian I have no race, my own people disclaim me, but I am all races becasue there is the queer in me in all races.” -Gloria Anzaldúa

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3/1/2022 0 Comments

The 4H’s 40 Years Later in Southeastern Michigan: Part Four

Evan Hall (He/They)

This article is part 4 of an ongoing series. Read part 1, part 2, and part 3 here.

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2/1/2022 0 Comments

Testimonio: Navigating the “In Between”

morena (she/her) ​

Testimonio: A narrative or story shared by someone about a significant experience, typically who has undergone a form of oppression and has lacked agency or the space to make their voice heard. This is a form of expression (typically written by those from the Latiné community) that aims to share a story that holds importance and can resonate with others who have undergone similar situations.

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