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Yasmeen A. Khan
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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.
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?"
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’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.
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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 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.
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."
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
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
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
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
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
COGLLI’s 1982 yearbook photo. Notably, no names are included. Courtesy of Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections.
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.
Military Ban Poster
An advertisement for a panel hosted by COGBLLI (renamed Lambda later that year) to discuss bans on homosexuality in the US military. Courtesy of Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections.
