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Local bookstore Book Show forced to relocate, depriving Highland Park of a queer-focused space

Highland Park’s local bookstore, Book Show, hosted Influx Collectiv's Queer Poetry Night Oct. 26 featuring poets Royal Rubez, Casj and bení ali ávalos. Influx Collectiv co-founders Cori Bratby-Rudd and...

Archiving the “blood, sweat and tears” of the Womxn’s Rugby Team

Last spring, Hope Fowler (senior) went to Special Collections hoping to find old documents and photos to archive the history of the Occidental womxn's rugby team. She found one...

“This is for the queers” : Q&A with Are You The One Season Eight’s Jenna Brown ’16 on representation, romance and reality TV

Once upon a time, the pinnacle of reality dating television either featured women fighting other women for the pursuit of happiness with the “ultimate...

DEB, SAGA and Dean of Students collaborate on Pauley Queer Space open house event

The Diversity and Equity Board (DEB), Dean of Students Office, and Sexuality and Gender Acceptance (SAGA) student organization hosted an open house at the...

New Gender and Sexuality Equity Committee takes lead on Emmons accountability

The Diversity and Equity Board (DEB) and the Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) Senate hosted a community accountability meeting Oct. 24 from 5:30...

Hollywood needs to stop making reboots and focus on telling diverse stories

Hollywood has been continuously churning out an obscene amount of sequels and remakes. So far this year, there have been 46 remakes, reboots and sequels,...

Intersections of identity: the queer athlete experience as told by Occidental student-athletes

Michael Sam was the first openly gay player to be drafted into the National Football League. According to Out Magazine, after coming out in an...

Title IX office creates new queer and trans student task force

The Title IX office is in the early stages of creating a Queer Student Task Force to address sexual misconduct impacting Occidental's LGBTQIA+ community,...