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I Am Resurrected by the Dawn Each Day: Abuse, Assault, and Love—A Letter

By Kathryn Queirolo Preface: Between 2012 and 2015 I was in a toxic relationship with someone I considered a friend. Between 2014 and 2015 I was subjected by this person to sexual abuse. This is a letter to that person. But, as is so often the case with stories of trans/queer survival, this is not a clean story, does not fit the traditional narratives we have inherited for talking about sexual…

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#prose #Sexual Assault #transgender #violence #women

Outsider

By Danny Perkins Artist Note: Because of my struggles dating as a queer and trans person, and lack of relationships due to my difficulty navigating the queer dating scene as someone without a lot of experience, I’ve mostly kept to myself in these past years. I’m a part of the vibrant LGBTQ+ community on campus, and while I’m certainly not alone in terms of loving friendships, romance has escaped…

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How can I save you when I can’t save myself?

CW: Eating Disorders By Emma Brant I see you calculating restricting controlling your body three times a day. I see me crying confused wishing that I was normal. I see how you hide pretend fake your wellbeing for others. I see how I glorified romanticized embodied the disease that devoured my body. I see you and hope plead beg for you not to be like me.

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I'm Sick of White Kids Telling Me What's What.

I’m Sick of White Kids Telling Me What’s What.

Written by Jae Bates Content warning: mention of child sexual-abuse Over the weekend, the Associated Students of the University of Puget Sound (ASUPS) Cultural Competency Programmer brought Alok Vaid-Menon to campus to perform Femme in Public. Alok is a “gender non-conforming performance artist, writer, educator, and entertainer” according to their site biography and a described as a…

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To Oriana — My Aaliyah

A Poem by Tomicia Blunt I think about you a lot more here it doesn’t as much to say your name to remember I have a lot of your pictures on the wall they seem like broken memories I didn’t understand the importance of the picture it’s ability to capture life that can only be lived once. It never feels real when I linger on my thoughts of you thoughts, memories,…

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Meeting Momaday

By Haley Newman N. Scott Momaday introduces himself. “I’m Scott Momaday,” he says, waving from his wheelchair. Born in 1934 at the Kiowa and Comanche Indian Hospital in Lawton, Ohio, Momaday grew up primarily in Arizona and New Mexico. The rich bass tenor of his voice is somewhat unexpected. We are at the president’s residence, a place that can only be described as “nicer than anywhere I will…

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Too Tired to Protest

By anonymous *This was written after Donald Trump’s election and the influx of protests that followed it* As I hit the “ignore” button on the fourth protest Facebook invite that I’ve gotten since Donald Trump won the presidential election, I started to wonder if I was supposed to feel guilty. I’ve missed protests for the #NODAPL (No Dakota Access Pipeline), for Black Lives Matter (hosted by the…

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#campus protests #protest #resources #university of puget sound

To Hell With Dreams

Of course the safe option in the Oscars got the most awards. That La La Land was a shoe-in for several Academy Award nominations and wins was consistently repeated in the weeks leading up to the Oscars. But, surprisingly, it got “snubbed” for best picture—the most important award of the night. Yes, it was corrected that Best Picture was supposed to go to Moonlight, which had also received best…

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#2017 academy awards #art #diversity #intersectionality #LGBT #lgbtq #lgbtqia #oscars #prose #queer #race #representation

Understanding Whiteness

Examining Whiteness (A Personal Reflection) by Indigo DaCosta Introduction While my title is “Understanding Whiteness,” I want to make it clear that I want to talk about the need for white people to understand whiteness. From what I read, POCs generally already do; and in any case, I would argue that it’s not their job to understand whiteness. It’s ours. For anyone who didn’t attend the Swope…

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#diversity #intersectionality #race #representation #transgender #understanding race #wetlands #wetlands magazine #whiteness

Re: Open Letter to the Puget Sound Community

This Tuesday (Dec. 6th), an email was sent to the campus community containing an open letter signed by some members of faculty. The letter addressed the anonymous flyers that were put up around campus and promptly removed few weeks ago. This post was written in response to that letter. By Catherine Huber Dear author and faculty members on behalf of whom they speak, You write: Let history be our…

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Subconscious Communications of Queer Identity: From Schubert to Anohni and Modern Day Pop Music

Guest post by Timmy Flock It is crucial to study music from all areas of history. No matter what genre, all music composed, arranged, and performed is reflective (and the result of) environmental, behavioral, and aesthetic forces. Environmental as referring to the era, country, and/or historical context the piece or song was composed in. Behavioral forces can refer to both compositional and…

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#art #lgbtq #music

The Price of Periods

cw: menstruation By Olivia Kersey-Bronec It costs about 5 bucks for a box of tampons. While it may not seem like much, that really adds up. The average menstruator uses about a box of tampons a period cycle which results in an average spending of about $2,200 on menstrual care in a person’s lifetime. The average menstruator uses approximately 11,000 menstrual products (pads, tampons) over their…

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#Campus Progress #menstruation #sustainability

Gender Binary Code of Honor

by Bella Wong It’s been almost two years since I cut all my hair off; and to this day, I do not regret my decision. I felt as if literal weight had been lifted off my shoulders, or my head, so to speak. Yet, following this dramatic step, I’ve been confronted on many occasions regarding my gender expression, leading me to question gender performance on a personal level. For the record, I identify…

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#Gender #gender performance #Identity

I Keep Waking Up

cw: trauma By Rosa Decker Spoiled rotten. Close-minded. Happy, even. And then I wake up. In the hallways during passing period, unable to stand. On my bedroom floor in my mother’s arms. On the linoleum dorm room floor, unsure of the month. In the cafeteria surrounded by strangers. On the cement in a parking lot with unresponsive stoners. Alone in the shower, head pounding. In the bathroom,…

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#health #Poetry #trauma

Art Review: Hope Gangloff and Being Human

By Karlee Robinson Art is largely regarded as subjective in nature. Through its subjectivity, it has been forged into a tool, utilized in the representation of our universe’s multiple realities. It exemplifies the variation of personal experience. Consequent to this dynamic, art has the capacity to not only transcend emotions responsive to social conditions, but also the individual opinions of…

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#art #Gender #representation #review

Make UPS Safe Again

TW: Sexist Language (more…)

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#Election 2016 #feminism #Gender #Greek life #Trump

Response to a Campus Conversation on Brock Turner

TW: Sexual violence, rape By Jae Bates The following writing is in direct response to the Brock Turner conversation that was held on campus on the evening of September 28th. The forum held on Brock Turner was one of the most upsetting and out of touch conversations about sexual assault that I have attended in my time at the University of Puget Sound. I want to preface this personal and emotional…

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#campus events #Rape Culture #sexual violence

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