A guy on Halloween acquired a wand from someone who was dressed as a wizard. He waved the wand at my chest and asked me "what is the spell that can make these bigger?"
Not that long ago, my friend and I were walking by Pomona and some guys skateboarded pasted us quickly and shouted “sexy bitches!” He got away so fast we couldn’t even say something to him about how disgusting his comment was. It really sucked that he got away with that.
In the first year dorms of Pomona, the door of two Jewish students was blasted with Christian Fellowship flyers.During a student leader training, students were asked to say their name and their spirit animal - disregarding the indigenous significance of the term.In class, a professor showed a movie of an artist, and all throughout referred to this artist using she, her hers pronouns. At the end he spoke about how he met this artist over the summer and "almost didn't recognize her because of her transition... She's a man now. Or he is" at which point he began laughing. And then said"So she's pretty radical". -- The aggression: 1) the misgendering of the artist he knew was a trans man, and referring to him using she, her, hers pronouns. 2) Using the transition of this trans man as a punch line to a story. 3) Equating one's living according to one's gender identity as a radical act, and not simply the living out of one's truth.In class, as we were discussing the notion of "the american dream" after a classmate made the comment that the american dream is used to fool people from under-resourced communities. Another woman in the class said that "at least they can stay optimistic. So what if they can't actually achieve upward mobility? At least they are happy thinking they can."In class, a visiting speaker spoke about his childhood growing in a predominantly black neighborhood, and complained of their 'victimhood narrative'.I am a disabled student with academic accommodations, one of which is that I have flexible deadlines for my academic assignments. A few semesters ago, I tried to turn in a late essay, but my professor refused to accept it because it was "too late," even though the semester wasn't even close to ending yet, and that she didn't have time to grade it anymore. It's a professor's job to help me learn, whether accommodating my disability is convenient for them or not.
It was Halloween and I was walking by Walker Wall when three obviously inebriated guys wearing togas passed by me. Asshole #1 said, "Dude, would you fuck that?" Asshole #2 replied, "No way." Thanks for policing my gender, queerness, and humanity. Apparently, looking masculine but having a vulva means that I am reduced to an "unfuckable" object.
The federal government attempted to take away my financial aid (a "full ride," mind you) because I was half of a class/only 0.5 credits away from where they thought I should be as a rising senior. This is because I took a leave of absence for a semester in order to spend that time earning money to keep my family from becoming homeless. I took a leave too late in the semester for my financial aid to be refunded, so I basically spent one of my eight semesters of aid to receive zero credits. So, essentially, because I was poor and I felt a duty to help my family, the government tried to make me even more poor by taking away my financial aid and forcing me to take out $30k+ in high-interest private loans if I wanted to actually finish my degree.
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