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Offended by the dominance of final clubs, or “enclaves of self-gratifying male separation,” on the first-year social scene, and frustrated at the lack of “energy or support for feminist issues,” Truszkowska found her way to the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) her first year at Harvard and was elected president of the organization the following year. She is also currently writing a thesis jointly in the literature and women’s studies concentrations that examines subversive dialogues in immigrant biographies...
...Truszkowska, who comes from a multi-ethnic Polish-Mexican background and only began learning English when she was six, such a thesis offers ample opportunity for personal reflection. Indeed, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. professor of Romance Languages and Literature Doris Sommer, also Truszkowska’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship mentor, notes as much in an e-mail. “Along with her sheer intelligence, Natalia’s complex cultural background… stimulate her mental and social agility,” she writes...
...Truszkowska is adamant, however, that neither gender nor ethnicity will dictate her direction. Her friend William L. Adams ’04-’05, also a Crimson editor, says “Tali has the most complicated background of anyone I know and she manages to respect each of her identities without being dominated by any single...
...agent, before heading off. Aaron C.M. Barth concedes, “Yeah, I’m pretty ridiculous.” This devout son of a Christian missionary-turned-diplomat has been strategically seated beside fellow world traveler—and well-known feminist—Natalia A.J. Truszkowska so they can share harrowing travel stories...
Clearly, the women in the crowd aren’t afraid to play rough. Truszkowska presents the tip of a bull’s horn, a souvenir of her stint in Spain studying female bullfighters. “It’s very random. I don’t really believe in killing animals,” she insists...