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Saying goodbye to the closet
November 4, 2016[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n October 11, 1987, Washington, DC was filled with roughly half a million protesters rallying for LGBT rights. AIDS was rampant, and at the time had taken the lives of countless people, while the Reagan administration failed to even acknowledge the crisis, let alone adequately address the situation. Just a year earlier, the Supreme Court had upheld Georgia’s sodomy law that declared oral and anal sex a criminal offence, arguing that “the Constitution does not confer a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy.” People were fed up, and expressed their frustration in a week of rallies that culminated…
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Bidding farewell to yet another safe queer space
October 11, 2016“After 14 years, AfterEllen as we know it will be effectively shutting down as of Friday,” editor-in-chief of AfterEllen, Trish Bendix, shared. It was devastating news that shook the queer community at the end of September, and continues to shake…
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Did I mention I’m queer?
September 2, 2016[dropcap]G[/dropcap]rowing up, I was pretty queer for a straight girl. When I was in high school, I always had a “gal pal.” At the time, I thought of them in the most innocent way: they were just girls I was…
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An interview with SFU’s coolest feminist radio-host, Kitty Cooke
April 4, 2016Twenty-two year old Kitty Cooke is a communication and archaeology student, DIY enthusiast, and the co-host of CJSF’s feminist radio show, IntraVenus. Sassy and smart, Kitty sees her communication and archaeology education as her pathway to educating others on culture…
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Sadly, airports do not recognize gender sensitivity
September 28, 2015Last week, an issue was hastily slathered onto the news involving a trans woman’s troubles while she — Shadi Petosky — went through security at an airport in Florida. As she made her way through the full body scanner, labelled…
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Students should be allowed preferred names on SFU ID cards
September 29, 2014Whenever someone pronounces my surname wrong, I smile, correct them, and jokinglyexplain how vowels hadn’t yet been invented when my ancestors came to the Western world. But despite the jokes I make in regards to my name, I fully understand…
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