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11/30/2022 0 Comments "This Is How We Know Who We Are": Kinship Networks, Community Care, and Archival Preservation in the Mobile Homecoming ArchiveGrey Weinstein (he/they) Mobile Homecoming, an online archive of oral histories produced by Black queer elders, was founded in 2019 with the goal of preserving and documenting “intergenerational [...] Black LGBTQ+ excellence.” The archive is centered on the value of the knowledge of Black queer elders, and engages in the project of recording this knowledge via video and preserving it online. At the same time, Mobile Homecoming works to provide housing and living assistance for the Black queer elders who contribute to the archive; it also hosts retreats and other interactive experiences that bring together Black queer community.
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Padma Danturty (she/her) I’m not the first person to notice common queer tropes in popular media, especially those that seem to only apply to the LQBTQ+ community. I’m going to break down one of the common tropes we see in TV media and if that representation has a negative impact on the community. For this article, I’ll be focusing on the hyper-promiscuity of queer characters within romantic relationships.
Spoiler warning: This article contains discussion about the plots of “Sex Education,” “Queer as Folk,” and “The L Word.” morena (she/her) A polling survey conducted by the Williams Institute School of Law at UCLA finds 3.5% of adults [9 million] in the United States identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual with over 1.8% of them identifying as bisexual. While this suggests over half of LGB Americans are bisexual, this group is often neglected both within and outside of its community. This phenomenon, called bisexual erasure, refers to the tendency to ignore, remove, or reject the presence of bisexuality in favor of sexualities that are attracted to a single gender; therefore those who engage in bisexual erasure prioritize their own sense of comfort despite the valid presence of bisexuality.
Catherine Sullivan (she/her) This summer, a pillar of queer culture on campus was tragically vandalized: the Sapphic Stall in the first-floor Mason Hall women's restroom.
Padma Danturty (she/her)Stereotypes are bad … right?
Our conversations regarding stereotypes, generalized beliefs about a group of people, are almost always if not exclusively about how bad they are. When thinking about a group you belong to, and its associated stereotypes, have you ever been happy they existed? 11/1/2022 0 Comments Disco Balls, Drop Squats, and Drag Visibility: A Review of "Gigi's Meets Aunt Charlie's: A Tale of Drag Scenes & Queens"Katie Watson (she/her) On September 29, the entrance to the Michigan Theater opens its doors to let in a crowd that will fill nearly every seat they have. The organ piano belts out pop songs in anticipation of the presenter for the evening, Ben Johnson, a former UM leader in the University Musical Society and now Director of the Performing Arts in LA. With ties both in Detroit and the west coast, Johnson brings together four drag queens from Gigi’s Cabaret in Detroit and Aunt Charlie’s in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, two interconnected institutions with rich and colorful histories. Inspired by James Hosking’s short film “Beautiful by Night,” this multimedia presentation explored the history and development of trans and queer culture in San Francisco and Detroit through the lens of the drag community.
Elessar Younglove (they/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.
5/3/2022 0 Comments My Coming Out StoryElessar Younglove (they/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/fae. And I’m gonna give a trigger warning for internalized homophobia/biphobia, regular homophobia, bullying, suicide, and sexual assault.
Elessar Younglove (they/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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