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Creative Writing

Alone, LGBTQ+ Forum

By Nia Guzman Nia Guzman, Alone, acrylic on canvas, 2021 This piece entitled Alone, is my expression of self-discovery through loneliness, confusion, anger, sadness, glee, and many other feelings in between and represents an ongoing [...]
Creative Writing

i’d rather be me (than be with you), LGBTQ+ Forum

By Lena Sheldon One of my earliest memories is being absolutely infatuated with Stephanie from LazyTown. It was one of those situations where people would joke, “Do you want to be them or do you [...]
National

Bisexuality and Erasure, LGBTQ+ Forum

By Olivia Renzi Bisexuality can be confusing to people, as monosexuality (attraction to only one gender) seems to have become the norm. However, in recent years bisexuality has become more common and visible. With that [...]
Creative Writing

Vocalization

By Sabrina Lomax I am ten years old: Avatar the Last Airbender is playing on Nickelodeon. I find myself enthralled by both Aang and Katara. I am young, so I don’t have the language to [...]
Campus

Why it is Important to Check on Our LGBTQ+ Peers, LGBTQ+ Forum

By Hannah Gianfriddo Photo found on Mobbera Foundation’s Twitter Page. Illustrator unknown. Massachusetts is oftentimes talked about as a safe place for members within the LGBTQ+ community based upon the long history of legislative wins [...]
Campus

Rain•bow

From Adi: Han and I had the pleasure of creating Rain•bow for Professor McGuire’s LGBTQ+ Narratives class. What we hoped to depict in this video goes beyond the classroom. We wanted to show images of [...]
Campus

Poems from Master of Intersectionality

By Micah Wolfgang Sometimes, I’m Political. Sometimes, I’m political. Sometimes society likes to debate my identity like I’m some far-out entity. Sometimes, I’m political. It is not on a daily that I rant about the [...]