Catie Byrne Features Editor From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple lit up Elm Street to celebrate Greensboro’s annual Greensboro Pride Festival. Taking on a stationary quality, instead of the marching, chanting or parade floats one may usually associate with pride, the Greensboro Pride Festival was formatted like a street market. Booth after booth … Continue reading Greensboro Pride Festival
Catie Byrne Features Editor Have you ever worried you were going to die of cancer? I have, but not because it’s an entirely normal human anxiety. It all started on social media; I was scrolling through my feed on the social media website, Tumblr.com, and came across an inexplicably humorous sponsored advertisement, entitled: “Prostate cancer treatments.” Of course, I am a woman and am not … Continue reading Absurd Ad Targeting
Catie Byrne Features Editor When most people think of the science, technology, engineering and math fields known as STEM, they think of science labs, math equations and nerds in thick-rimmed glasses. What may not necessarily come to mind, is the field of robotics. An interdisciplinary field, robotics combines skills from science, math, engineering and technology to build machines that can be used for fun purposes … Continue reading E3 Robotics
Catie Byrne Features Editor In an interview with The Carolinian, Chris Kelly, American historian and writer of several works, spoke with me about the historical significance of Memorial Day. He has co-authored “America Invaded: A State by State Guide to Fighting on American Soil,” “America Invades: How America has Invaded or Been Militarily Involved With Nearly Every Country on Earth” and “Italy Invades: How Italians … Continue reading Reflection on Memorial Day with Chris Kelly
Catie Byrne Features Editor The relationship of Jane Fonda’s Grace Hanson and Lily Tomlin’s Frankie Bergstein in the Netflix Original series, “Grace and Frankie,” begins with an ending. The two discover that their husbands, Robert Hanson and Sol Bergstein, played by Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston, not only want a divorce, but are gay, and want to be together. The 2015 premiere season of … Continue reading Grace and Frankie: The Complexity of Gay Identity
Catie Byrne Features Editor As a part of UNCG’s Pride Month, on April 13 from 4-5 p.m., the Office of Intercultural Engagement hosted UNCG librarian Dr. Jim Carmichael and UNCG archivist Stacey Krim, for “How to Access Hidden Histories.” Though its CAP statement described the event as focusing, “on how we explore hidden LGBTQ+ narratives and histories that often occurred under a shroud of … Continue reading UNCG’s LGBT History
Catie Byrne Features Editor From Feb. 11 to August 6, 14 unique and distinctly stylized paintings line the walls of UNCG’s Weatherspoon Art Museum in the exhibit, “Affinities and Variations.” Described in a plaque at the “Affinities and Variations” exhibit entrance as a showcase that, “Pairs paintings in the museum’s collection to show visual affinities in structure, theme, technique, emphasis or palette as … Continue reading Weatherspoon: Affinities And Variations
Catie Byrne Features Editor Every March 17, people across the world dress in green, fill their Guinness glasses to the brim and eat corn beef and cabbage to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. The holiday began as a day to honor the death of the patron Saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick, in the 17th century. It was a day of feasting for Christians and … Continue reading Deconstructing Irish Pride
Catie Byrne Staff Writer On Monday, Feb. 27, UNCG held its third annual Tunnel of Oppression in the Cone Ballroom of the Elliot University Center. Lasting from 12-6 p.m., the event was facilitated by the Office of Intercultural Engagement and led by student volunteers. Upon arrival at the tunnel of oppression, volunteers collect a person’s information to register them for the event before they are … Continue reading Experiencing the Tunnel of Oppression
Catie Byrne Features Editor On Thursday Feb. 16, UNCG’s Office of Intercultural Engagement and Planned Parenthood, hosted a sexual education workshop in the Virginia Dare room (Alumni House) at 7:00 p.m., geared towards people of all genders and sexualities. Filled with an assortment of food, pamphlets on sexual health and condoms to encourage people to practice safe sex, the room held about 20 to … Continue reading Expanding Sexual Education at UNCG
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