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Have you ever been in the situation where your identity makes you the automatic authority on all things related to that facet of yourself? It’s something I experience fairly often at school, as the resident openly queer queer. I’m certainly not the only one there, but the on-campus presence is small enough that I am [...]
Born in Spokane, Washington in 1931, David Eddings was an author most noted for his work in the fantasy genre. The work he is perhaps most known for is an epic fantasy twelve books in length. This epic is comprised of two five-book series, the Belgariad and Malloreon, and two prequels, Belgarath the Sorcerer and [...]
Introduction As an American living in the green-conscious city of Portland, OR, I see the words “sustainable”, “green” and “eco friendly” perhaps dozens of times when I go shopping at my locally owned grocery store. But are products wrapped in excess packaging which have traveled possibly thousands of miles from their point of origin where [...]
We are taught from our earliest experience that heterosexual and cisgendered identities are “normal,” and that any variation from these norms is deviant and substandard. Consider the popular usage of the term gay, which has come to mean substandard, effeminate, and flawed. The word gay has become a derogatory slur used as unthinkingly as people [...]
