Choosing Our Battles: Standing By the Communities We Seek to Challenge
I was staying over this past week at my grandmother’s house in my father’s hometown. One morning I was helping make breakfast in the kitchen with my aunt, while some […]
Tag Archives: Homophobia
We Are Not the Same as Everyone Else: Queer Space, Media and the Reteaching of Our History
Recently, one of the precious few queer clubs in my area of the state closed, unable to continue paying the rent for their space. This came two years after a […]
Doing It Ourselves: Reclaiming Community Service
One of my best friends lives in a small, post industrial mill town in Western Massachusetts. The city is mostly Black and Latin@, with high unemployment and one of the […]
Beyond Coming Out: Political Engagement Across Queer Communities
A friend of mine, who is queer and Latino, and I were talking this past weekend about the choice of coming out. Though he founded the GSA at his predominately […]
Represent: Community Over Media
“The more we critique, the less we create.” – Austin Purnell I was watching an episode of Modern Family with a few of my friends the other day, most of […]
Radical Desires: Education as Queer Work
Since starting this blog, a few people have asked me why I decided to give a queer title and framework to a blog where so many of the discussions and […]
No Justice, No Peace: Challenging ‘Diversity’ and Embracing Conflict
A teaching program of which I was recently a part held a ‘Diversity Day’ early on in the program’s duration. The goal of the day was to give the community […]
Coming Out in the Classroom
Last semester I student-taught in a third grade classroom at a small, public elementary school near my university in CT. Though the reinforcement of racial redistricting codes had recently shaken […]
Radical Faggot 