Word: queernesses
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...ever before. We produce better products using fewer resources (thanks to the dematerialization of consumer goods); the environment is generally healthier (major air pollutants like sulfur and carbon monoxide have declined by 15 to 75 percent since 1970); and society is more tolerant (going from the Stonewall Riots to Queer...
...stockings at the Andover Shop—“a delightful island of elegance in a sea of slovenliness.” At the same time, the back page, the trademark section of the paper, has been downgraded to a perpetual [enter anti-queer here] page where intelligence and logic fall victim to an endless desire to prove that somehow, people of different sexualities simply deserve ridicule. Of the seven issues from this past year, six of the Salient back pages contain some sort of anti-queer joke unbefitting of political discourse. If Republicans learned anything this past month...
...Here for a Pimp is an Oscar-winning song? As even Essence Carlson, one of the Rutgers students Imus insulted, acknowledged at a press conference, black rap artists labeled young black women as "hos" long before Imus did. And while straight people may not be able to say "faggot," Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Will & Grace helped mainstream the nonhostile gay joke for straight people. But all this reappropriation and blurring - distinguishing a good-natured "That's so gay!" from a homophobic one - has created a situation in which, when Richards went off on his Laugh Factory rant...
...traced back to events like the publication of Valerie Solanas’s SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto. Accusations would be leveled later against the overwhelmingly white, middle-class makeup of the Second Wave. Third Wave feminism arose in the mid 1980s and 90s, adding emphasis to queer theory and racial challenges. Part of this movement involved the cultural development of Girl Power, originally exemplified by the no-holds-barred Riot Grrrl and later by a series of pop-stars (Spice Girls, anyone?) as a commercial strategy to sell music and clothes. It’s difficult...
...plastic baggie of condoms, dental dams, and other socially progressive articles. Included in these baggies were “BGLT Safe Space” stickers, intended for students to affix to their doors in demarcation of an area into which, in apparent contrast with most Harvard spaces, a queer student could enter without risk of being attacked. One of my blockmates (all of them are heterosexual) quickly found an appropriate spot for the sticker: on the door of our oven...