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To Cecil: The Power of Being Out in the Classroom

An illustration of a queer professor in the classroom.

I went to college at UNC-Chapel Hill in the early 1990s. To my recollection, only one of the professors I knew was ever “out” in the classroom—we’ll call him “Cecil.” He and a woman colleague co-taught “Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World,” and I confess, I enrolled mostly because it had “gender and sexuality” in the course title. I wasn’t alone, either. A clump of us queer kids sat in the front row of that auditorium, eager to learn…

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Spectrum South Night at The Catastrophic Theatre Photos

A photo of Spectrum South Night at the Catastrophic Theatre.

The Spectrum South Night performance of Leap and the Net Will Appear was held on February 23 at The Catastrophic Theatre. The thought-provoking, gender-bending play was followed by a post-show discussion led by Spectrum South writers Josh Inocéncio and Crimson Jordan, who answered audience questions about queer identities presented in the evening’s performance.…

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