December 12, 2015 - 00:08
I feel like there is so much that I can do about my topic even now that I am done with the presentation. I would love to talk to the heads of Zami and ask them why they feel the need for a seperate gender and sexuaity affinity group for people of color. Moreover, I would like to know about more people's experiences and see if there are any other dimensions of people's identities apart from race, and inclination towards sexual acitvity that clash with Bryn Mawr's queer community's general perception of what it means to be queer. I would also like to talk to the heads of gender and sexuality afinity groups and ask them to conduct discussions including the findings in our project. Even if the negative experiences we came across in our interviews were due to slippages, holding talks about them might make people more conscious of the implication of their comments and might instigate in some indviduals to educate themselves with other people's notions of gender and sexuality.
Even though I really enjoyed all presentations, I was really interested in Ayesha's presentation about Muslims at Bryn Mawr. In light of recent events, and anti Muslim sentiments, I am scared and confused, and I really want to know where the Bryn Mawr community stands in all of these. One thing that struck me was that a lot of people were shocked at finding about the negative experiences that muslim students had, and I wonder what they would have done if they saw something like that happening in front of the.