A few weeks ago, CMC threw a ‘Pride Party.’ What CMC didn’t do, argues Ashley Park CM ‘25, is provide actual institutional and emotional support for queer students.
Tag: LGBTQIA+ Issues
OPINION: If you wear cowboy hats, you’re gay
In order to create true equality, it’s necessary to deconstruct existing stereotypes of gender and sexuality expression.
OPINION: True allyship is knowing when to step back
Straight people encroaching on LGBT-centric parties and spaces isn’t necessarily a bad thing — but flagrantly ignoring the guidelines of those spaces is.
Pomona College denounces Westboro Baptist Church ahead of planned picketing
The Westboro Baptist Church, a religious group known for its hate speech, announced Nov. 6 that it plans to picket at Pomona College Nov. 12 at 7:15 a.m. to protest a course on “Queering Childhood” being offered next semester. “Lord willing, the preachers of WBC are on the way, sad
OPINION: Pitzer’s response to Trump’s trans memo was too little, too slow
It’s my third year writing an article for Transgender Day of Remembrance. I plan to keep writing them as long as I’m here and the Editorial Board is willing to publish them. This year’s article is coming early, but not for positive reasons. I, unfortunately, must address the memo published
5Cs Search for New QRC Director After Summer Firing
Pomona College President G. Gabrielle Starr and interim Queer Resource Center Director Manuel Diaz held a Q&A with students on Tuesday to solicit student feedback and opinions regarding the ongoing hiring process for a new QRC director. Jonathan Higgins, a writer and speaker on LGBTQIA+ issues, was named the new director in June
Being Trans at the 5Cs, Where Policy Lags Behind Lived Experience
When Claremont McKenna College chemistry professor Nancy Williams HM ’95 decided to come out as a trans woman to her colleagues and students in CMC’s Keck Science Department, she worried about how her announcement would be received, but she knew it was time. “At that point I was living a