It costs about 5 bucks for a box of tampons. While it may not seem like much, that really adds up.
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Author: Wetlands Magazine
Wetlands Magazine is the University of Puget Sound campus publication dedicated to the critical interrogation of gender, sexuality, ability, age, class, race, embodiment, intersectional identities and social justice as well as the celebration of related art, poetry, literature and performance.
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Gender Binary Code of Honor
It’s been almost two years since I cut all my hair off; and to this day, I do not regret my decision.
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I Keep Waking Up
cw: trauma
And then I wake up…
Art is largely regarded as subjective in nature. Through its subjectivity, it has been forged into a tool, utilized in the representation of our universe’s multiple realities. It exemplifies the variation of personal experience…art has the capacity to not only transcend emotions responsive to social conditions, but also the individual opinions of artists and the smaller communities they represent.
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Make UPS Safe Again
cw: Sexist Language
Phi Delta Theta has produced a new series of apparel for its members. One t-shirt design in particular includes the phrase, “Make UPS Great Again”, a reference to the Donald Trump presidential campaign slogan. Upon hearing of this t-shirt design I was initially stunned and confused.
TW: Sexual violence, rape
The forum held on Brock Turner was one of the most upsetting and out of touch conversations about sexual assault that I have attended in my time at the University of Puget Sound.
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This is About You
I have come to notice how invisible trans women are in our on-campus LGBT+ community. These spaces are assumed to be for trans women. Members claim to be proponents of trans women issues, and I’d like to believe them. However, I do not see tangible evidence of this.
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I’m Not Google
“Our campus claims to be accepting of diverse identities, but even here, I have had to explain myself in countless situations. I don’t mean that I chose to; I mean that I had to. It’s not that the people to whom I had to explain myself weren’t well-meaning, it’s more that ‘well-meaning’ isn’t enough.”
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Book Review: Carry On
Carry On is a love story, a ghost story, a family story, and a story of history. All together to be one pretty damn fantastic novel.
And if you’re looking for an intro to queer YA fiction, you’ve found it.
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Poppies: A Biomythography***
CW: sexual assault I freeze. I don’t breathe. Teeth clenched and with a prickle behind my eyes I begin to rock in my chair. It’s not a big deal. I am breathing again, but too fast. He was going to find someone eventually, but her—. I bite back my tears and wait for the […]
