The Bookshelf
How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones BY: KIM BARTENFELDER, STAFF WRITER “How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir” is a gripping reflection of the life of Saeed Jones, an LGBTQ+ author as well as…
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BI-BI-BI Karaoke Night
Editor’s Note: A placeholder name of Sarah Brown was utilized in this story to protect the identity of featured students. Shining a light on bisexuals in the LGBTQ+ Community. BY CAYLA CADE, STAFF WRITER Pride Alliance hosted a karaoke event…
Author Scott. W Stern Visits Mason
“The Trials” looks at the effects of the American Plan BY COLLIN COPE, STAFF WRITER Author Scott W. Stern visited Mason for Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Awareness Month on Wednesday, April 3 to discuss his recently released book, “The Trials of…
Immigration And LGBTQ+ Collide On Policy
Associate Professor, Rachel Lewis, tackles immigration in her latest book BY IZZ LAMAGDELEINE COPY CHIEF When Rachel Lewis began her dissertation studies, it was not in studies about lesbian cinema or transnational feminism and human rights —it was in musicology, the study…
Queer and Christian: The Truth
BY ELIJAH NICHOLS, STAFF WRITER It is not often that I write of my queer identity in such a formal setting, and it is not at all that I write of the intersections of my identity of being both queer…
Professor Makes Career In Assisting LGBTQ+ Community
How research in psychology is helping Lauren Cattaneo effect change BY IZZ LAMAGDELEINE, COPY CHIEF For Lauren Cattaneo, the field of psychology is one where real change for real problems can occur. “My interest in psychology, more broadly, has always been…
Supreme Court Allows Transgender Ban In Military
Mason responds to Trump’s transgender military ban BY IZZ LAMAGDELEINE COPY CHIEF A proposed transgender military ban has been kept from becoming active policy by court action since July 2017, when President Trump tweeted about how he wished to reverse progressive…
Non Cisgender Rights Gone?
Trump administration might change definition of gender; Mason community responds BY IZZ LAMAGDELEINE, COPY CHIEF For people who are transgender or gender nonconforming, gender is a complex construct. However, the Trump administration is considering narrowing the definition of gender considerably according…
Resources for Mason’s LGBTQ+ Community
Learn more about Mason’s Safe Zone and other resources available to students BY BROOKE LEWITAS, STAFF WRITER Actress and trans rights activist Laverne Cox once said, “I’ve never been interested in being invisible and erased.” However, incidents of invisibility, erasure…
Consent Carnival Packs Wilkins Plaza
Find out how students are incorporating consent with carnival games… BY ANGELIQUE ARINTOK In collaboration with Women & Gender Studies, the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Multicultural Education (ODIME), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Resources and Student Government,…