Are You There God? It's Me, Jake Peralta

February 23, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in Arts & Culture

By Abby Schneider '21

For y'all unaware of the greatest television show of all time, Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a sitcom about the shenanigans that the police detectives get up to in a fictionalized version of Brooklyn's 99th precinct. The show first aired in 2013 and has been wildly successful amongst twenty-somethings and college students ever since. Created by Michael Schur (The Office, Parks and Recreation, The Good Place) and Dan Goor (Parks and Recreation, The Daily Show, Conan), the show seamlessly incorporates pop culture, millennial humor, and even addresses current, culturally relevant issues without morphing into a drama.

La Vie en Rose: My Year With a Conservative Catholic Family in France

February 23, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in , Identity, Politics

By Anonymous

Content warnings: homophobia, racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, misogyny

When I decided in my first year at Wellesley that I wanted to spend my junior year in France, I hadn’t realized how being a lesbian might affect that experience. As I prepared to leave during sophomore spring, I decided I would not come out to my host family, but remain quietly closeted. In any case, I assumed LGBTQ+ issues would rarely come up and, if they did, that my imagined host family would be tolerant at best or indifferent at worst.

The Day After the Protest

February 19, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in Campus Life, Politics

By Anonymous

Content warning: discussion of transphobic rhetoric, mention of restricted eating

Yesterday, a Freedom Project speaker’s presence was an attack on trans students. Last year, it was an attack on assault survivors. What if something changed?

Intersex at Wellesley

February 23, 2017 by Editor-in-Chief in Identity, Mental Health

By Anonymous

Content warning: mentions of gender dysphoria, descriptions of medicalization of intersex bodies

When my doctor called me with the final test results, she seemed to be nearly in tears. She wanted to immediately put me on two different types of birth control, regardless of the fact that I would need to be taken off of medications important to my mental health. She made me swear I wasn’t having sex. She repeatedly told me that even though chances were low that I could even have my own biological kids, I would need to have an abortion if I ever did get pregnant. The reason? If I was to have a child, that child would most likely have full-blown CAH resulting in ambiguous genitalia. In other words, any of my future kids would most likely be visibly intersex.