Legacy Admissions, Tenderqueers, and the Anti-Oedipal Defense Force
Volume 47 Issue 2 — September 22, 2023
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Featured Pieces
For Indy Metro, Owen Dahlkamp B’26 wonders whether it’s possible to curb the impending loss of racial diversity in the university, after the end of affirmative action.
“So how can we stave off the seemingly inevitable loss of diversity, as seen in California? The truth is: we don’t know for sure.” Read more here.
In Arts for Issue 2, Kian Braulik B’24.5 looks at tenderqueerness as a means to critique gay assimilation.
“It’s high time to reject acceptability in favor of disruption, mixture for melee. To build networks founded on presentist care and conscious organizing. Not labels. Not color schemes.” Read their piece here.
In World this week, James L. B’24 describes how settler colonial armed forces uptake academic texts in service of combining scholarly theory with military practice .
“It is ultimately by remaining wary of the fetishization of revolutionary ideas, of our institutions’ tendencies to curricularize concepts no longer deemed threatening, that we sharpen theory’s claws.” Read his piece here.
Also in this week’s issue:
The Bulletin
Upcoming events and local organizing. Read here.
Week in Review
Week in Air Conditioning — by Riley Gramley B’25.5
Feats
Over Easy Choices — by Cecilia Barron B’24
Ephemera
Party Group Therapy — by Kailin Hartley R’24
Literary
Face Turned Towards Upsetting Sun — by Emilie Guan B’26
Garden of Improbable Delights — by Emilie Guan B’26
Opportunity Rover — by Annie Wu B’27
S&T
This Sentence Is Just a Platitude — by Corinne Leong B’24
X
Magic Rock — by Mindy Ji B’24
Dear Indy
Crushing It — by Solveig Asplund B’24
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