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Gender and sexuality: It's not a choice

Gender and sexuality: It’s not a choice

Shaneeza Hasnani, Opinion Columnist September 30, 2021

Gender and sexuality are issued to you the moment you enter this world. The hospital labels you as male or female from the minute you are born. Your family offers you toys to play with based on the gender...

Elise Hester, video producer, can have her cake and eat it too. illustration by Andrea Nebhut

Dear Friend

Elise Hester February 4, 2018

Dear Friend, A year ago, I joked about not liking boys or girls and a friend — who is named after a container — responded by saying I might be asexual. He was right. I left lunch to Google "asexual"...

Ariel Del Vecchio and Abigail Wharton's "Constructed Religiosity," on display as part of the Mini exhibit in Dicke-Smith until Feb 12, 2018. photo by Amani Canada.

Don’t play identity politics with people you don’t know

Abigail Wharton January 24, 2018

Co-signed by Ariel del Vecchio. Ariel del Vecchio and I are presenting a mixed media installation piece titled “Constructed Religiosity” at the Mini, a student art exhibition in Trinity’s own Neidorff...

Ariel Del Vecchio and Abigail Wharton's "Constructed Religiosity," on display as part of the Mini exhibit in Dicke-Smith until Feb 12, 2018. photo by Amani Canada.

Students’ art is an appropriative, white feminist mess

Cristina Treviño January 24, 2018

When you visit the "Mini," Trinity's annual competitive art exhibition featuring the work of nine students, don't be fooled by the prayer candles and altar, the messages of female empowerment on "prayer...

Students ARIEL DEL VECCHIO, ABIGAIL WHARTON, JULIA POAGE, KRISTINA REINIS, ELIZABETH DAY, and gallery manager MARK ANTHONY MARTINEZ prepare the exhibit before the next day's gallery opening. Photo by Amani Canada, photo editor

The “Mini” exhibits new student art

Austin Davidson January 24, 2018

Nine Trinity artists present their artwork Thursday at the opening reception for the "Mini," a student art exhibit featuring installations including sculpture and painting. Julia Poage, a junior double-majoring...

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Craig Williams speaks on the power of love

Abigail Wharton October 10, 2017

Trinity University's second Lennox Seminar lecture took place Monday, Oct. 2, in the Fiesta Room from Craig Williams, professor of classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Williams' work...

photo by Amani Canada

Caroline Vout speaks on sex and power in Rome

Nick Smetzer September 20, 2017

Trinity University's Lennox Seminar lecture series kicked off at the San Antonio Museum of Art with a talk on sexuality in the Roman empire by Caroline Vout, one of the most prolific modern historians...

Jeremy Allen speaks at the Can Straight Men Eat Ice Cream event cohosted by Trinity Diversity Connection and the Men's Project. Photo by Allison Wolff

Can straight men eat ice cream?

Dominic Walsh September 16, 2017

Approximately 40 students filled the Woodlawn Room in the Coates University Center on Tuesday to hear students and staff from Trinity Diversity Connection (TDC) and The Men's Project broach the subject...