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‘It’s okay to be different’ ‘Trans: The Movie’ documents transgender lives

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KRISTEN SHULTIS Staff Writer “It’s okay to be different,” were the wise words of an eight-year-old transgender girl in “Trans: The Movie,” a film shown on Tuesday, Oct. 7, in McEwen Hall as part of TransDiscovery: Exploring Gender Variant Lives. “Trans” is a documentary about transgenders either transitioning, in the......
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Women Rock the Vote at Women, Rock and Soul

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REBECCA HALE Assistant Reverb Editor The Women’s Student Union hosted its annual event, Women, Rock and Soul, last Tuesday evening in the Williams Center Multipurpose Room. This year’s event was themed “Women Rock the Vote” and emphasized the importance of voting not only for women, but for the highly unrepresented......
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Comedian Jessica Halem gets down and dirty

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REBECCA HALE Assistant Reverb Editor Jessica Halem, who introduced herself as “a radical, Jewish, feminist queer stand-up comic,” and whose career she describes as “generally being pissed off for a living,” put on quite a jaw-dropping act in Marvel Theatre last Tuesday. Halem is not a cautious comic who treads......
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Outlaw/ed Bodies: a cultivation of awareness

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CLAIRE WOODCOCK Special to The Leader What exactly constitutes an outlawed body? For weeks, students and faculty have been grappling to shed light on the different types of bodies that have been denounced by society. These efforts serve as the launching point of an interdisciplinary student exhibit, titled “Outlaw/ed Bodies,”......
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Fredonia celebrates Valentine’s Day weekend with The Vagina Monologues

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Hanna Neumann and other members of the cast perform “My First Period.” Mary Laing / Special to The Leader CHRISTINA CONCEICAO Sports Editor This past weekend, SUNY Fredonia put on its 13th annual performance of “The Vagina Monologues,” a play written by Eve Ensler, a Tony Award winning playwright, performer......

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