Today is Valentine’s Day. Whether you treat today as date night, girls night out, or self-care day, it’s just another day in the exciting journey called life. I’m sure you are wondering how students at a women’s college celebrate Valentine’s Day (if they even celebrate it at all). Sorry to disappoint you, but there’s no generalized way we Mawrters spend our Valentine’s Days. Here’s how I spent mine this year…
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Mia Mingus Keynote for LGBTQIA+ Month
Mia Mingus, a writer, community educator and organizer working for disability justice and transformative justice, gave her keynotes titled “A Queer Love Like This” tonight in Thomas Great Hall. She is a queer physically disabled Korean woman transracial and transnational adoptee, born in Korea, raised in the Caribbean and the U.S. South, and now living in Northern California.
What does it mean to queer love? Not the shallow type of love sold to us, but the kind of love which propels people to risk their lives for other, the kind of love that is sacred, limitless, boundless, deep, timeless…