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Meet Point Scholar Tyler McDougald

What college/university are you attending? Clemson University Which program are you pursuing and what about the subject intrigues you most? English and History. I am most interested in queer themes in literature and southern queer history. What are your career aspirations? I aspire to become a public service attorney working towards a more equal future […]

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Meet Point Scholar Jessica Chiriboga

What college/university are you attending and what made you choose it? I am attending Dartmouth College this fall! I fell in love with Dartmouth because of its commitment to a stellar and personal undergraduate education, world-class faculty with small class sizes, the friendly campus community, and the wonderful New Hampshire wilderness. Which program are you […]

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Meet Point Scholar Josh Aiken

What college/university are you attending and what made you choose it? Yale University; I wanted to be somewhere I could focus on black studies and in community with folks who are thinking about their academic and political work at the same time. Which program are you pursuing and what about the subject intrigues you most? […]

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Celebrating Black History in Fashion

Hey everybody! First off, Happy Black History Month! My name is Vanessa (she/her), Point’s resident fashion engineer. So naturally, I’m going to talk about my queerness, my Blackness, and FASHION! Black fashion designers have often been categorized as dressmakers, tailors, and seamstresses. Their rightful place at the helm of the design process was often overlooked […]

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Hidden Figures, the Right to Public Space, and Histories of Resistance

There are many reasons why I love the movie “Hidden Figures,” a film about the brave and brilliant African-American women that worked at NASA’s Langley Research Center at a time when racial segregation and sexist employment discrimination was part of the texture of everyday life. One of things that film portrays exceptionally well is how […]

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DSCH and Politicized Symphonies As They Exist Today

It has been said that “all art is political.” In the history of Western classical music, this has never been more true than for those composers who wrote under the Soviet regime of twentieth century Russia. Inebriated with the powerful grip he had achieved over a generation, the infamous demagogue and dictator Josef Stalin censored […]

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America Together: Moving Forward After Election Day

As a Political Science major and a political nerd, it has been exciting to witness and take part in this election cycle. As I am learning about politics and political theory, I am simultaneously experiencing perhaps the most high-energy election season in recent American history. This was my first time voting in a general election; […]

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University of Arizona Trans*Studies Conference

    At the beginning of September, the University of Arizona hosted the inaugural Trans*Studies Conference – an international and transdisciplinary conference on gender, embodiment, and sexuality. Spearheaded by the incredible effort of U of A’s Institute for LGBT Studies, planning for the conference concretely began last Fall with the assemblage of a steering committee […]

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National Leadership Conference (NLC) 2016

Having grown up in a low-income household, I never had the opportunity to travel very far. In fact, prior to the Point finalist interviews in Los Angeles, I had never flown or been outside the South. So I was extremely excited to go to Washington, D.C., for the National Leadership Conference (NLC) for my second […]

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Point Scholar Valentin Sierra & Mentor Ed Callahan share their thoughts on the Mentoring Program

With our National Leadership Conference only one week away, we decided to share a throwback post about Point Scholar Valentin Sierra and his mentor Ed Callahan from January’s LEAD Health & Medicine Conference. In January, we got the chance to talk a little bit about how Point’s Mentoring Program has had an impact to both of […]

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