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Grad School Straddlers 12 years, 1 month ago
so question for you guys. i’m considering joining the LGBTQ group on my campus but main reason i didn’t last year when i first moved was because i was afraid i’d end up hanging out with students in my classes. is that ridiculous? i guess i’m worried about maintaining some level of professionalism since i have to teach, but now i just want to hang…[Read more]
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Gaysians! 12 years, 1 month ago
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Straddle Your Frustration 12 years, 1 month ago
preemptive action: not frustrated yet…but the school year will undoubtedly bring it.
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Straddle Your Frustration 12 years, 1 month ago
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Autostraddle Summer Book Club 2011 12 years, 3 months ago@internrachel and @julia1
I just finished Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey – a whopping 1015 pages of pure bliss. I highly recommend it to anyone who remotely likes fantasy and/or heroines and/or BDSM. So obvs queerness is so totes not a big deal in the alternate universe where the Kushiel Trilogy (you better believe I’m already on the second…[Read more] - Load More
I don’t have an answer… I would just like to say that I’m going through the exact same thing right now.
I think this is going to happen to me too.
Is there no grad student queer org? (start one?) Also, you could volunteer at a local queer org and meet people off campus that way!
I’ve kinda established myself as a grad student in the group and don’t hang out with the members much outside of GSA stuff (with the exception of a few – who actually are mostly other grads). As fairly knowledgeable about queer academics – which very few others in my group are b/c their isnt much of a gender/women’s/queer studies program here -…[Read more]
That’s neat. I feel like I’m not knowledgeable enough to be an advisor! But I can definitely be (or rather, I guess I already am) a nerdy queer in the corner :D I emailed the group and apparently they don’t have meetings or anything, just random events scattered around the year, so we’ll see how it goes.
Good luck! Hope you are able to find a comfortable way to negotiate your place in the group.
Thanks :)