Choosing the Instance of Gender Euphoria

February 25, 2019 by Editor-in-Chief in Identity

by Gus Agyemang '22

Content warning: gender dysphoria

What I have now come to understand as “gender dysphoria” became my problem around the time of puberty. Like most teenagers, I noticed the changes my body was going through, but what really bothered me was how different it was from my friends’. My voice didn’t drop, and I didn’t grow tall, and people were now referring to me as she. I felt disgusted by my budding breasts and hips and enraged that I was to feel proud of them.

Raised Right

February 25, 2019 by Editor-in-Chief in Politics

by Sara Clark ’22

I grew up in a world where George Bush could do no wrong. I remember celebrating his reelection on my fifth birthday, oblivious but excited because the right side had won. I spent his presidency dozing off on my living room couch after dinner, comforted by the familiar voice of Bill O’Reilly praising the leader of the free world.

Tell Me I'm Pretty

December 16, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in Identity

by Seren Riggs-Davis ’21

On June 1st, I broke up with my boyfriend. It was a surprise for both of us. We saw our relationship as long-term, there were no noticeable problems between us, and we definitely enjoyed our time together, so a break up was the last thing on his mind or mine.

Lessons Unlearned

December 16, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in Identity

by Emily Witherow

My family’s history was taken from me in 1942.

Characters from The London Players’ "Hamlet" Ranked by Queer Energy

November 20, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in Arts & Culture, Campus Life

by Addie Pates '19

Did you miss The Actors from the London Stage’s production of Hamlet last month? Not to worry; I’ve got the recap you need.

Xylocarp, or Homeschooling for Beginners

November 20, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in Identity

by Eleanor Nash ’21

“I know what you’re thinking. Homeschooled kids are freaks, or that we’re weirdly religious or something.”

Rainbow Turns Gray

October 28, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in Identity

by April Poole '19

Content warning: homophobia, homophobic language

I met my best friends on the first floor of my dorm, nervous that someone was going to see us and just know that we were going to the party at the Queer Studies House.

Learn How to Be Like a Wellesley Student!

October 28, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in Campus Life

(Or, How to Let Yourself Die at the Hands of an Institution That Only Cares for Your Money)

by Alicia Margarita Olivo '20

Flavors

September 28, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in Identity

By Corinne Mueller '21

My life is like going to an ice cream store.

My Ice Cold Mermaid Sex Summer

September 28, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in Arts & Culture

by Samantha English '19

Content warning: mention of suicide attempt

Look, I didn’t set out to read a bunch of vaguely pornographic feminist retellings of fairy tales this summer. It just kind of happened.

On Amma, Queerness, & Being Out of Her Reach

May 09, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in Identity

By Suma Cheru '18

Content warning: Parent death

I often wonder whether my deceased mother would support or reject my queerness.

So I Head You Were Palestinian

May 09, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in Identity

By Lanie Najjab '18

Content warning: anti-Palestinian sentiments

One day after school, a boy I’d spoken perhaps three words to cornered me by my band locker. “So I heard you were Palestinian,” he said.

He then proceeded to tell me that I was a liar. “No one is from Palestine,” he said. “It doesn’t exist, and it never existed. No one lived there before the creation of Israel.”

Comma

April 20, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in Identity

By Jane Vaughan '18

Content warning: description of judgmental attitudes about chronic illness

First, it came for my lungs, delicate balloons swelling and emptying purposefully, a whoosh of air spreading throughout my body. It attacked the fine threads of my airways. Lungs rattling, raspy air forcing its way through, trying to extract a full, clean breath. My chest constricts tightly.

Waking Up

April 20, 2018 by Editor-in-Chief in Mental Health

By Anonymous

Content warning: depression, suicide, bipolar, anxiety, physical abuse

I’ve always struggled with getting out of bed. This is usually a result of lack of sleep the night before, but more recently, I know that hasn’t been the case. I’m getting at least seven or eight hours of sleep every night to try to combat the problem. I pray before I go to bed that I’ll wake up in the morning—I ask God to help me, just to nudge my feet because I know I don’t have the strength or mental capacity to do this on my own. I set multiple alarms in the morning just to make sure I will hear the ring. I’m not sleep deprived, so what the hell is wrong with me? “Laziness” is the only diagnosis I can fathom. But I’m not lazy.