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How Bathrooms Enforce the Gender Binary

Today I read an article discussing the possible criminal legal implications of the flourishing anti-trans bathroom bills. The article discussed the possible pitfalls of enforcement (there are many) and the possible legal grounds for fighting back (not as many as we’d hope). This is one of the many articles I’ve read on the subject in […]

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Ask a Scholar: Do you have any advice for someone applying for a Point scholarship for a second time?

Question: Hi! I applied last year and made it to the semi-finalist round. My test scores are very mediocre, but I have SO many other things going on to speak to my capabilities. Last year when I applied, it was my first year in my doctoral program. This year, my CV is super beefed up, […]

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La discriminación y sus intersecciones

In this post, HBO Point Scholar Daniel Berezowsky discusses the complexities of intersectionality that he has personally had to deal with as a Mexican, gay man living in New York City. Building on his personal experience as a new grad school student, he reflects on how discrimination arises when we fail to understand other human […]

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Ask a Scholar: Is it harder to be considered by Point if you haven’t attended college yet?

Question: I was looking through the previous Point Scholars and it seems to me that the majority of the students are already college level and have more real world experience than I do. Is it harder to be considered for Point as someone who hasn’t attended college yet?   Point Scholar Grace Wickerson responds: Real world experience can […]

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The Woman In A Tie: Embracing My Butch Identity

By Point Scholar Sarah Bacot It was near the end of the interview when the request came: “You know, if you were to work with our population, we would ask you to be conscious of what you wore. We would never ask you to wear a dress or something that made you feel uncomfortable, but […]

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Queer Where I Sleep

“Home.” What a loaded word. Historically, home has been a changing space for me, a complicated space. By the time I graduated from high school, I’d lived with my nuclear family, my grandparents (two different times), my aunt, and two different step moms. I see myself as being raised and most influenced by my dad, […]

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