We in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and LGBT Studies Program at Cornell University express our grief and anger at the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, and David McAtee at the hands of law enforcement.
We stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, our Black community members, and people who are protesting racist injustices all over the world.
Professor Katherine Sender, Department of Communications and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality recently published research article in GLQ Journal.
Rather than take at face value the claims to social justice that this framing suggests, I critique cosmopolitan norms of sexual universalism and the Anglo/European perspectives on which they rest.
These young Cornellians are finding new sources of inspiration in everyday life.
"I wanted to focus on my own identity, as well as dissect the human condition in regards to pleasure, the desire-destruction dichotomy, and sex," says Alexander Schaef '20.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
— James Baldwin
