The Queer and Transgender Resource Center continues to demonstrate that our fellow students and classmates have a safe space to converse about their sexuality during the Queers Policing Queers event. Attendees were encouraged to write down any experience that they had in which they felt like they were being oppressed or made to feel lesser than others for not fitting the stereotypical image of someone from the LGBTQ+ community. Professor Angela Asbell, who currently teaches queer theory on campus, led the conversation by reading aloud cards on how those in the queer community experience policing and shaming from others within the community, and even outside of it. The idea that … [Read more...] about “Queers Policing Queers”
Queer and Transgender Resource Center
LGBTQ+ students share their stories at Coming Out Monologues
CSUSB’s LGBTQ community gathered on October 9 for the annual Coming Out Monologues open mic event. The Santos Manuel Student Union’s Queer and Transgender Resource Center hosted the event to participate in National Coming Out Day. Multiple students got up to tell their stories at the SMSU theater. The event provided a space for the LGBTQ community to provide support and insight to one another through sharing their struggles with coming out as queer and/or transgender. Some told their story spontaneously, others had prepared monologues, and one student even shared a long emotional poem describing his history of abuse, loss of father, and difficulty accepting his … [Read more...] about LGBTQ+ students share their stories at Coming Out Monologues