Harvard can be a lonely place, and it is easy to get in the habit of judging others in place of seeking true connection. Connecting with other human beings —and with yourself—can take many forms, but the most taboo of these forms is sex. This work is therefore a celebration of true connection between and […]
Note: Sources have been anonymized because of their hesitancy to publicly come out as non-binary/transgender due to safety concerns caused in part by anti-trans legislation that is coming to legislatures across the country. Trans Day of Visibility is on March 31st, and there will be events that are open to students hosted by the BGLTQ+ […]
“I never felt a connection to Radcliffe, and I was a feminist,” Jill Abramson ’76 prefaced in her interview. Abramson was among the first class of women to live in Harvard Yard as a First-Year in 1972. Even though she lived at Harvard, she was still technically a student at Radcliffe College, which only three […]
When my little brother moved into North Texas’ Grapevine-Colleyville School District (GCISD), he had a hard time making friends. Of course, that’s normal for any tween moving schools, but his trouble had less to do with his personality, and more to do with his new friend’s parents disliking his name. My sweet brother is named […]
Moving in is painful. Students get everything out of storage, wait for their boxes from HUA, rearrange furniture for maximum space (and try to hide the hole you made in a wall from your bedpost). With different rooming situations and different House layouts, the one constant you will always see is sweat. This year, Cambridge […]
It’s 2 AM on a Saturday night. Harvard students are packed into El Jefe’s Taqueria, shouting out to friends further in line in hopes of purchasing their favorite bean and cheese burrito a few minutes faster. The tables and chairs are pushed into the corner of the restaurant in a failed attempt to create enough […]
On my quest to find self-love, I found that painting myself nude rid me of my body dysmorphia. I could not deny that there was beauty in the art, just far enough removed from my physical body that I could not distort it. Painting nude portraits of my friends who also struggled with these issues […]
“If you can’t love yourself how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?” This quote is repeated at the end of most episodes of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, a show responsible for making drag mainstream. The show starts with a dozen queens strutting on a runway, and they then compete against each other […]