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Wednesday, January lo, 2018
Elon, North Carolina
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Matt Reichenbach
Elon News Network | @reichenbach7
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^ THE LGBTQIA
A Jl community and
JuU people of color have
always been discriminated
against. But for people of
color who also identify as
LGBTQIA, they say they face
double the discrimination —
and the experience of having
multiple oppressed identities
is called intersectionality.
The Merriam-Webster
Dictionary defines intersec
tionality as “the complex,
cumulative manner in which
the effects of different forms
of discrimination combine,
overlap, or intersect.”
People — especially col
lege students — often use
identity to connect with
others and exist in social
groupings. But in cases
where people may fit in mul
tiple identity groups, identity
can become complicated. It
is even more complicated
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHANIE HAYS | DESIGN CHIEF
Clockwise from top: Tres McMichael, Matthew Antonio Bosch, Julian
Rigsby, Darius Moore, Chris Stolz and Detric Robinson are members
of the LGBTQIA community and people of color.
DEFINING INTERSECTIONALITY
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines
intersectionality as “the complex, cumulative
manner in which the effects of different forms of
discrimination combine, overlap, or intersect.”
are marginalized.
According to the Nation
al Coalition of Anti-Violence
Programs, 40 percent of
LGBTQIA adults are racial
and ethnic minorities, but
60 percent of LGBTQIA and
HIV positive people who re
port hate violence are people
of color.
According to the Amer
ican Public Health As
sociation, black sexually
marginalized men may be
1.2 times more likely to
suicide tnan men-
white counterparts.
With Intercultural En
gagement being one of the
four themes of Elon Uni
versity’s 2018 Winter Term,
students and faculty. who
identify in these groups want
the conversation around this
issue to open up.
Detric Robinson, com
munity director for the Dan-
ieley Neighborhood at Elon
See LGBTQIA | pg 4
Rushing to religion
A girl’s journey to finding her
independence through community
Matt StranzI
Elon News Network | @ElonNewsNetwork
When junior Leah Vail decided to rush
a sorority during Fake Break of 2016, she
felt that there were two categories of girls
at Elon that rush: the ones who had always
dreamt of joining or the ones — like her —
who were told to try it out to see how the
experience was.
At Elon, 53 percent of females joined
a Greek sorority in 2016 according to the
Elon Fraternity and Sorority Life Spring
2016 Chapter report.
Once Bid Day came, Vail joined the
Epsilon Chi chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi
sorority. The happiness she felt as she ran
down to the AOII house on Bid Day would
soon turn into depression and loneliness,
soon leading her to withdraw from the
organization. It was through other orga
nizations such Catholic Campus Ministry
and Leadership Fellows that she found the
communities that allowed her to prosper
on Elons campus.
See RELIGION Ipg I
Junior Leah Vail
holds a poster
in support of
Catholic Campus
Ministry fall
2016.
PHOTO SUBMITTED BY LEAH VAIL
NEWS • PAGE 6
^ Lambert, Book plan
to address mental
health on campus
LIFESTYLE • PAGE 9
Through Instagram, a
student began an
^ art business
SPORTS • PAGE 11
Seibring, Thompson
score 1,000 career
points .