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...defense of his hometown. This weekend at the Game, don’t think Carloff’s not going to get a little payback from all the fair Elm City’s detractors. “Sure I know the gang signs you need to flash to avoid getting shot on the way from the Yale Bowl. But, sadly, they’ve just momentarily slipped my mind,” says Carloff...
...former expression has become an anthem for Mawuena M. Agbonyitor ’04, a social anthropology concentrator in Mather House. Sitting on her bed to avoid the work building on her desk, she listlessly flips through TV channels. “Cold, gray and tired”—these are the words that describe her day-to-day Harvard malaise. “I honestly don’t know anyone who likes it here,” she says. “Everyone is waiting...
...avoid making arrests for misdemeanors,” says Sergeant Burke of the New Haven Police Department. “[If there are problems] we try to calm everything, send everyone on their merry ways—we’re here to keep the peace.” An arrest is, he says, “the last resort.” The New Haven Police Department, claims Burke, hasn’t broken up an off-campus Yale party in 10 years...
...communities. Transphobia is as grave a problem there as everywhere, and the relevance of trans concerns to other movements is under constant attack. The inclusion of trans concerns in extant movements—in a manner neither fetishistic nor tokenizing—is necessary if such movements are to avoid a self-negating hypocrisy. Transsexuality, transgender, and gender variance—though each denotes a distinct and specific identity—are often regarded as willful choices that could or ought be abandoned, or diagnosed as dangerous mental ailments to be treated with drugs or psychotherapy. Gender Identity Disorder?...
...founder of the Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries, has said, “After all these years, the trans community is still at the back of the bus.” Queer and progressive activists need to acknowledge and work through their own transphobia, if they are to avoid a silent complicity with the violence that the Trans Day of Remembrance is meant to mark...