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This Week in the Academic Jungle
I’m knee-deep in bureaucratic, faculty paperwork already today, so the last thing I wanted to see was this email from our university’s Coordinator of the “Women’s and Gender Equity Center”:
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
- Pride Week with SAGA includes Drag Battles on Friday at 6 pm in Flohr Lecture Hall. All are welcome.
- Family Connect is free as a group event if you join us.
- Inclusivity Training on the 11th and 12th are the last opportunities of the semester to complete training and be recognized at Lavender Graduation to receive the rainbow bear of inclusivity for your door.
- Night of Healing is a discussion and candlelight vigil for and in support of sexual assault survivors.
- Denim Day is an international movement to stand in solidarity with sexual assault survivors against the “What were you wearing?” commentary.
- Lavender Graduation is a ceremonial right of passage for LGBTQ+ students and allies to celebrate overcoming the additional obstacles they face. All in support of the community are welcome.
As always, thank you for your support. We appreciate you.
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Coordinator, WGEC
Grant Writer, Institutional Research
Deputy, Title IX
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First Generation College Student
Preferred Pronouns: She/Her /Hers
A few points and pet peeves:
- I really hate seeing these “drag” events getting mainstream promotion across campus.
- You mean there’s only one more chance for me to receive the “receive the rainbow bear of inclusivity“? I’m going to roll my eyes so hard, I’ll sprain a muscle.
- Denim Day is probably better than a slut walk, so there’s that.
- “Lavendar graduation” is a “ceremonial rite of passage” for “overcoming additional obstacles”? You’re talking about 22-year-olds. Treat them like grown men and women and stop this kind of condescending language.
My college has not been as bad as many, as things have gotten worse in academia over the past decade. But there are some radical changes going on, and I’m not happy about them.
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I think it’s gender neutral.
Or gender neutered . . .
Is that a cisgender question? How dare you!
Tim, since you seem at least tangentially in a kind of weird way to be connected to the higher ups, would it be okay if a group of men I got together, preferably some neanderthal Frat Boy types, attended the “Lavendar graduation” for overcoming their “additional obstacle” of rampant male discrimination as an oppressed minority at our Universities? Just Asking. I was hoping to get the treasured official sanction of “inclusivity” for a protest so we might kinda sorta fit in as one happy family. Wouldn’t want to be “divisive” like that meanie Trump now would we?
Could we call it ‘unitard’?
Are denim yoga pants a thing?
Not since the ‘70s
Now I’m picturing a drag battle/drag race, and…well, it would be a spectacle. Probably good entertainment.
I’ll bring you the puppy of encouragement when I head over to the safe space.
Can a snowflake identify as a raindrop?
I don’t need a rainbow bear. I have a rainbow bunny.
Now there’s an intersectional dilemma. Which is more oppressed? I would argue that bunnies are more oppressed than bears given their tendency to be eaten by various members of the patriarchy.
But bears are members of both the gay and fat communities and are the only class of gay that can be openly made fun of.
But perhaps not to their faces, lest one feel the rainbow wrath. Whereas outside of the killer rabbit of caerbannog and Jimmy Carter, who is afraid of ridiculing a bunny?