I hosted semi-regular talks at the Feminist Center about representations of gender and power in pop culture, and 2012 was a particularly fruitful year on that front: The November release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 marked the end of a franchise that had bemused, titillated, and annoyed the hell out of my generation throughout our entire adolescence. The campus sexual assault wars are heating up this is the year after a Yale fraternity was temporarily suspended for making its pledges march through campus chanting, “No means yes, yes means anal,” while carrying signs reading, “We love Yale sluts.”Īt the time, I was a student on a different college campus less than 50 miles away, trying to foster meaningful connections as a volunteer for our sexual assault prevention program. Obama is the first sitting president to declare his support for marriage equality, all while various states move to explicitly ban it. You’re wary of being ambushed by a crowd dancing to "Gangnam Style" at seemingly any moment.
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