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Yasmeen A. Khan

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true love
Editors' Choice

True Love Revolution: The Club Where Virginity Rocks

For all of my feminist beliefs, I still find myself affected by the pro-abstinence teachings that I grew up with. If the story of True Love Revolution proves anything, it’s that these sexist doctrines can spring up anywhere — whether that’s in a Southern public school or on a purportedly liberal campus like Harvard.

Teenage Dream Rookie Magazine
Introspection

Teenage Dream

When I was a preteen, Rookie fueled the daydreams that I had about my incoming teenage years. I imagined warm parties, memorable misadventures, my picture-worthy prom dress. Not something perfect, but something precious that I could only access in the years between 12 and 20.

Valeria Luiselli Portrait
Fifteen Questions

Fifteen Questions: Valeria Luiselli on the Best Novel That Has Ever Been Written, Her Friend Crush, and the Perils of an MFA

The author sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss writing and teaching. “How do we reshape the view of the migrant as an inherently victimized figure or as an intruder of sorts by thinking, for example, of migration in its kind of heroic arc?” she says. “Of the migration story not as a tragedy, but as a form of epic?"

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Endpaper

Direct Flash

I can’t shake the fact that my love for Los Angeles Apparel opposes my self-professed feminist politics. When I add another tennis skirt to my shopping cart, I line the pockets of a man who built his career on the degradation of women.

Lena Chen Lena Chen
Conversations

Lena Chen’s Intimate Internet

In the intimacy of Chen’s performance art, I see the nascent question of what desire, care, and closeness can look like in an increasingly online world. Chen is an artist who speaks into the future: the future of sex, the future of technology, the future that implicates everyone interacting on the internet.

Yasmeen Endpaper Collage
Introspection

Yasmeen Endpaper Collage

Still, I can’t shake the fact that my love for Los Angeles Apparel opposes my self-professed feminist politics. When I add another tennis skirt to my shopping cart, I line the pockets of a man who built his career on the degradation of women.

Noah Feldman
Conversations

Noah Feldman on Constitutions, Content Regulation, and Boaty McBoatface

Feldman, who specializes in constitutional law, draws upon established political systems to tackle the emerging, ever-changing domain of the digital world. The man who advised constitutional processes in Iraq and Tunisia now wants to develop systems of governance for social media platforms.

Pole Dancing Club
Around Town

Stripped Down: A Look Inside the Harvard Undergraduate Pole Dancing Club

The newly formed Harvard Undergraduate Pole Dancing Club seeks to "empower" its members, particularly people from "historically disempowered identities."

COGLI Scrut Graphic
Scrutiny

Out/Laws: Student Advocacy for LGBTQ+ Rights at Harvard Law

Since its inception, COGLI has served as a center for LGBTQ+ advocacy at the Law School. The organization has spearheaded policies ranging from banning military recruitment on campus to including sexual orientation in Harvard’s non-discrimination policy. Moreover, the very existence of this group gave visibility to LGBTQ+ students at the school, allowing them to challenge homophobic stereotypes and bring LGBTQ+ life to light.

HLR vol 71
Scrutiny

HLR vol 71

Harvard Law Record, vol. 71 no. 4 (October 17, 1980), p.13. 1978 also marked the year GLAD—Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders was founded, a group that COGLI worked with. Courtesy of Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections.

Outlaw Poster 5
Scrutiny

Outlaw Poster 5

Poster advertising “Outlaw,” Lambda’s annual gay and lesbian dance. The tradition started in 1993, the year that Lambda became the organization’s new name. Courtesy of Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections.

Ben Schatz
Scrutiny

Ben Schatz

Ben Schatz photographed in the Harvard Law Record in 1983 hanging up posters on behalf of COGLLI (a renaming of COGLI) for an upcoming gay and visibility week. The caption reads “Ben Schatz, 1L, raising consciousness.” Courtesy of Harvard Library.

Bowers v. Hardwick
Scrutiny

Bowers v. Hardwick

An advertisement for a Lambda-sponsored event reflecting on Bowers vs. Hardwick ten years later. Courtesy of Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections.

COGLI 1982
Scrutiny

COGLI 1982

COGLLI’s 1982 yearbook photo. Notably, no names are included. Courtesy of Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections.

COGLI 1981
Scrutiny

COGLI 1981

COGLLI’s 1981 yearbook photo, taken three years after the organization was founded. The caption reads: “We chose to appear in this photograph, after careful consideration of the possible personal and professional ramifications, to give expression to the efforts of those who fight unjust discrimination on all fronts, especially with regard to the right to love. While many of COGLLI’s members, friends, and supporters are not pictured, it is their continued and ever increasing support and understanding that enabled this group to appear in the Yearbook for the first time. Courtesy of Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections.

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