“I’m waiting for it, that green light, I want it.”
These lyrics from Lorde’s “Green Light” rang in my head when I returned to Georgetown University for the Spring semester of my first year....
“Hey Julia, would it be possible for me to borrow your keys to the Reynolds Hall practice rooms?” my old duet partner from chamber music class asked me.
“Of course. You can keep them. I won’t...
I firmly and deeply believe that God is trans. Or queer, or gender-nonconforming in some manner or another. I know and trust this understanding for a variety of reasons, mainly because the divine —...
On Feb. 24, 2022, I woke up to the sound of explosions in Lozova in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. “The war has begun” were the first words I heard that morning as my mom rushed to the military office...
Zahra Wakilzada (SFS ’23) lived in Afghanistan for the first 13 years of her life before moving to Pakistan and then the United States after her family came under threat by the Taliban because of her...
Humans are alleged to be social animals, on the ontological basis that society precedes the individual. But does that social nature preclude solitude in daily life? If we are naturally programmed to function...
Winter break freshman year induces a disorienting regression. Back in Pennsylvania, I was tucked in the warmth of my queen-sized bed in my single suite, sipping the overly sweet coffee that sustained...
Earlier in January, I was flying back to Georgetown University via Qatar. In what was ostensibly a mundane trip back to school, I was reintroduced to questions of self-formation and how our identities...
If you’re on social media sites like Tumblr, Twitter or Facebook, you’ve probably seen queer and trans people and allies make jokes about how “gender is fake.” The joke is based on the fact —...
In the confines of my home in the suburbs of the Pacific Northwest, some of my earliest memories included learning the basics of Islam. I remember my mother singing me to sleep with zikr, my grandmother...
I carry with me various identities. UndocuQueer, the intersection of being both Undocumented and Queer, is one of them. At various points in my life, they were both shameful identities that I could not...
Georgetown has been criticized in the past for club exclusivity on campus, yet students are still able to find groups that celebrate acceptance. Given the university’s status as a predominantly white...
