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Page 6 Hml BWH&iIBL Erin Klank Statt Writer Watch out Guilford Col lege! The Queer Consor tium is coming to town! What do drag shows, for eign movies, and dancing all have in com mon? Well, the IDS 401, Read ings in Gay and Lesbian stud ies, taught by Amanda Bailey, assistant pro fessor of En glish and women's stud- ies, will feature all of these as final projects. I, along with the other stu dents in the class, see these projects as a chance to expose the community to what we have learned and have a little fun at the same time. We claim the name "Queer Con sortium" and arm our selves with creativity. A "Queer Coffee house" hosted by se nior Mary-Eleanor Joyce kicked off the projects. It featured a variety of perfor mances, and met with supportive crowds. One of the many upcoming events includes the Serendipity drag show, co-sponsored by Union and WQFS. Coordinators and se niors Rainie Rainaldi and Amanda Roop express a desire to create a serious drag show and move away from Serendipity drag shows of the past. They encourage more than just men to enter and note that drag is a parody of gender roles, so women can dress up as women too. Judges will deter mine winners, who can take home prizes, such as a DVD player, stereo, and Sega. A drag workshop prior to the show will address ideas and misconceptions about drag. Roop expects "to have some real live Greensboro nueens at the w Junior Lauren Bluestein and senior Ben Burkhardt will facilitate a college night at iUV/lli t U 1/V/ U V/Vl Gender-Bender Workshop: Thursday, March 29, 7:00 p.m. FFA Serendipity Drag Show: Friday, March 30, 8:00 p.m. FFA College Night at Warehouse 29: Thursday, April 5, 8:00 p.m. - 12 a.m. Queer Moves Dance Performance: Sunday, April 7, 7:00 p.m. Dana Auditorium Kink Workshop: Thursday, April 17, Time and place TBA International Queer Film Festival Wednesday, April 18 at 8:00 p.m. FFA Sunday, April 22 at 2:00 p.m. FFA bian, Transgender, Resource, Center]. Burkhardt hopes the night will "provide a space to build bridges for future communi cation and coop erat i on between queer stu dents and groups at other schools in the Triad." S e - nior Sion Day so n will lead a dance performance, nf iden- Features WWW.SCREAMINGQUEENS.COM ( to attend. The $4 cover charge will go to Guilford's GLBTRC [Gay, Les- The Guilfordian tity and sexual ity." The program will feature six or seven dances cho reographed and performed by Guilford students and members of the Greensboro community. &- '"6'" Warehouse 29 in Greensboro. The alcohol free event is open to stu dents 18 years of age and older. Blues t e i n and Burkhardt encourage queer and other col lege stu dents inter ested in con necting to the queer community Dayson says, "dance allows us to use our bodies as vehicles for expression," and looks to move away from the theoretical and intellectual aspects of queer theory that we discuss in class. Sex, sexuality, and gender studies major Kelly Davis, a se nior, will host an informal work shop and question-and-answer period about "kink sexuality," or more specifically BDSM (bond age and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism). Davis says, "[BDSM] is a kind of sexuality that most people don't know our society, labeling it queer. Seniors Emily McCullough, Anne Watson, and I will present an international queer film festival. We are all Spanish majors and feel for eign films provide an opportu nity to address the experience of being queer in different cul tures. A brief discussion will fol low each showing, providing the audience an opportunity to voice reaction. McCullough says, "we hope these movies give the Guilford College community a chance to learn about and dis cuss queer issues, as they present themselves in differ ent cultural contexts." WWW.SCREAM INGQUEENS. COM Junior Daniel Fleishman and senior Hope Wedderburn : fl i! 4il!gSMMlk* l JH : : $& H: s # ffPi ' : J^l ' ' \sf • *;v about and it deserves dis cussion." We have briefly spo ken about this subject in class. How ever, a work shop provides an opportu nity for fur ther elabora tion, showing how "kink sexuality" goes against the norms of March 23, 2001 are working together to create a guide highlighting the place of queers in Greensboro's religious congregations. They plan to visit different places of worship to try to get ideas about how ho mosexuality is viewed. Fleishman says, "homo sexuality and religion is a con troversial subject and there have been many contradictions between the two and we want to try and show homosexual stu dents what congregations they can go to in the area." Although, they will not present anything formally to the community, they plan to make the guide available at other projects and in the GLBTRC. Bailey says "sexuality is an analytic like race and gender through which we read our so ciety and it needs to be studied." This reflects the importance the class holds in the Guilford curriculum, and why being queer needs to be addressed. Hopefully the final projects will provide an opportunity for this. We look for ward to seeing you there. WWW.SCREAM INGQUEENS. COM WWW.SCREAMINGQUEENS. COM
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