Come to this event!
“ An evening of poetry, spoken word, theatre, and visual art, flight/light/Spirit is an exploration of black queer artistic aesthetics featuring the work of:
Petra Floyd
Najee Haynes-Follins
Cyree Jarelle Johnson
Miatta Kawinzi
Uni Q. Mical
Azure D. Osborne-Lee and
j.D. Stokely.”…j.D. Stokely… that’s me!
to be fair the way i heard the story someone called campus police on them who then called the fire department
from gxesioHowdy! 12F or F12 is indeed the right way of putting it. Glad yr enjoying all these fucking Hampsters, the moderators are super excited for you (and your peers) to start in the fall as well! We’re both orientation leaders so hopefully we’ll get to meet you right off the bat.
Also, we’re procrastinating for finals so everyone should feel free to ask us questions about student life!
Photo of post-inauguration protest by Johanna Resnick Rosen
LOOK AT THESE FUCKING PEACEFUL PROTESTERS
YURT RADIO TAKE OVER BY STUDENTS OF COLOR →
Noon to Midnight! Students of color will be talking about race, racial profiling, ethnic studies, and other issues that are happening on Hampshire College Campus.
Lil B getting glitterbombed at Hampshire College. #queerswag
THANK YOU BASED QUEERS FOR GLITTERBOMBING LIL B. He is now in the discursive catagory of folks who have been glitterbombed. COCA should know: The realtalk #faggots and #lesbians at this school will not passively let ironic homophobia and sexism go unchecked. Did you see the assaultive, gross, drunken cisdudes who were here just to see him?
A Working Definition of Queer Studies versus LGBT Studies
“A subject-less critique, with a focus on a wide field of normalization as the site of social violence.” ~ Michael Warner
The Deans of Hampshire College have exhibited a misunderstanding of Queer Studies and Queer Theory as opposed to LGBT Studies. Queer theory is an epistemological lens, or a way of knowing and seeing, that focuses on the structure of society, namely, the ways in which social constructions of identity are normalized through processes of repetition, to such a point that certain identities and behaviors, such as heterosexuality, are believed to be natural and universal. Thus, societal institutions such as nations and governments mandate that society be structured through nuclear families, consisting of monogamous married heterosexual couples, reproducing to provide the next generation of workers.
Queer Studies encompasses and incorporates many other fields—various scholars have applied queer theory to disciplines such as anthropology, economics, government, law, public health, postcolonial studies, and critical race theory. Art forms such as performance, film, and literature are paramount to queer theory—we argue that Queer Studies contaminates and necessarily disrupts other modes of thought. Rather than describe the lives and cultures of LGBT peoples, Queer Studies seeks to point to an unimagined future where the definition of human is expanded, hierarchies of morality are abolished, and nothing is no longer normal or natural, but necessarily queer.
