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ure out that a half moon of blue
over my eyelid was a better deci
sion,” she said.
Scholinsky was released at 18
after she had earned her high
school diploma at a mental insti
tution and came out publicly as a
lesbian a year after her release.
She now uses art as a venue for
coming to terms with her experi
ences, which include many hours
spent in seclusion rooms, running
away from drug-filled needles
and contemplating suicide.
“I love the way that art can be
come a mirror, and I love the way
you see that happen to people,”
she said.
The InterSEXions Conference
is part of the LGBT community’s
celebration of Queer Pride this
month and puts the transgen
dered community and its issues
into the center of the spotlight.
“Usually the ‘T’ in the LGBT
community gets really over
looked,” said Gabrielle Hendel, a
senior psychology and women’s
studies double major and director
of the LGBTA. “It’s a huge, inte
gral part of our organization.”
The series kicked off earlier on
Tuesday with a brown bag lunch
when graduate assistant Kate Sulli
van gave her presentation, “Trans
Gendering Monstrosity.” Twenty
students filled the Lesbian Gay Bi
sexual Transgender Alliance office
at the EMU to hear Sullivan speak
about how gender deviance is used
in movies to make villains appear
more devious.
Later in the afternoon, Susan
Stryker, a historian interested in
transgender phenomena in histo
ry and contemporary arts and cul
ture, showed clips from several
underground films from the
1960s. The clips introduced stu
dents to new perspectives on
transgender visibility and its rela
tionship to issues in society.
Today, students have the oppor
tunity to attend another brown bag
lunch at noon at the LGBTA office.
Elizabeth Reis, an assistant history
professor at the University, will
give a talk titled: “You Can Teach a
Whole Class on This?: Teaching
Transgender Issues.” Reis, who has
been teaching a class on transgen
der history for both the women’s
studies and the history department,
said her nine-year-old son inspired
the title for her talk when he asked
that question.
At 4 p.m., English Professor Di
anne Dugaw will give a lecture
performance dealing with 17th
century through present-day Eng
lish and American ballads about
women who went to sea and war
masquerading as men. The per
formance will take place in Ger
linger Lounge and, like all Inter
SEXions events, is free and open
to the public.
Will Roscoe, a historian who has
taught Native American studies and
American studies, will give a pres
entation about the lives and times of
native women leaders at 7 p.m. in
Gerlinger Lounge. At noon on
Thursday, senior psychology and
women’s studies double major Mol
ly McClure will share her thoughts
and progress on her thesis “Femi
nism and Transgenderism,” during
another brown bag lunch talk at the
LGBTA office. McClure decided on
her thesis after taking Reis’ class on
transgendered history.
The last event of the InterSEX
ions lecture series will be on Thurs
day at 4 p.m. in Gerlinger Lounge.
Alice Dreger, assistant professor of
science and technology studies at
Michigan State University, will dis
cuss “The Meaning of Testicles In a
Woman: The Medical Politics of In
tersex.” Dreger will talk about is
sues surrounding the medical treat
ment of people born intersexed.
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As an undergraduate
student, I greatly
enjoyed and treasured
the time I had to read,
research, and attend classes. I
lived in the residence halls,
and l had much fun with
friends. I had some friends
who studied too much; others
spent too much time partying.
I believe one can be a good
student and have fun at the
same time. Many students
understand that they can
study hard and have an active
social life. These students,
who are in the majority, earn
good grades and have many
friends. When they drink
alcohol, they do so with their
health, futures, and other
people in mind. The majority
of students are not held
hostage either to their studies
or to drinking, and it is this
majority who I celebrate.
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