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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A little over two years ago, Erin Bailey and I were sitting in the café of a local Seattle museum dreaming about the ways that queer ideas and cultures could engage mainstream museums. One of those dreams was a queer-themed history exhibit that would bring the rarely-seen stories of local lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and […]
Thanks to The Palette Fund for underwriting Point Foundation’s Summer Internship Program, I spent 10 weeks working with Green Chimneys NYC Division. The internship reinforced my belief in the combined desire of both LGBT homeless youth and the broader community of inter-generational LGBT individuals – engaging with one another towards a specific goal of creating change […]