Tag: transgender
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Drag: Culture, Community, Controversy
Edited by Tom Perpetua and Sebastian Rubino It’s a Saturday night in late February at Bangkok Café, a Thai restaurant in New Paltz, New York, where a drag show is underway. Strobe lights are flashing, the DJ is blasting top ten tracks and drag queens are making the crowd scream, “Yasss Queen!” One of the…
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Class Visits “Perpetual Revolution” Art Exhibition
Showcasing different movements for social change through imagery, the “Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change” exhibition at New York’s International Center of Photography (ICP) wowed SUNY New Paltz professor Dr. Rachel Somerstein and students from her Picture Culture course. Somerstein and her students trekked down to Manhattan to visit the exhibition on Friday, April…
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Becoming Tyler
On a cold January weekend, Tyler Adams, 16, went with a friend to shop for a new outfit to wear to a school dance. At Hoosic Valley High School in Schaghticoke, N.Y., the winter semi-formal was a well-attended event that students looked forward to for weeks. With cash from babysitting and a seasonal job at…
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A Look Into “EUGENIA”
Transgender issues may be a hot topic on campus, but they are nothing new, as the Theatre Arts Department reminds us with the play “EUGENIA.” Written by playwright Lorae Parry, “EUGENIA” is a gender-bending play that is set in two time periods, 1916 and modern day New Zealand. It addresses the issues of gender roles…
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Group of Faculty and Staff Create LGBT Campus Climate Survey
A group of LGBT faculty and staff will soon put up an online survey addressing the campus climate in regard to sexuality and sexual orientation, which may translate to future revisions of protocol. The survey, which will be up and running on Sunday, Nov. 6 at the latest, was prompted by the numerous gay suicides,…
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SURE Student Lends A Voice for Transgender Children
Claire Papell, 22, usually spends the summer resting her eyes, clearing her mind, and recharging for another busy year at college. This year, she dedicated eight weeks to intensive research on advocacy for transgender children. It was no holiday. “I expected to work really hard and I did!” she exclaimed. Papell, a fourth-year women’s studies…