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Social Studies 10 plans a walk out b/c of Peretz

Posted 10/04/10 by Katie Zavadski

A friend in Social Studies 10 forwarded this email to me. I’m working during that time, but I think it’s really cool and you should go support them if you have the chance.

Please forward this to your friends, and especially to your tutorial.

Hi,

If you’re reading this email, you’ve decided to enroll in Social Studies 10.  Which means spending hours and hours every week reading, writing, and discussing social theory and morality turns you on.  Or you’re a masochist.

Either way, you care about this intersection of morality and society.  Hobbes says morality comes from the state, Rousseau from the body politic, but I, and I hope you, think that YOU can sometimes judge between right and wrong.

Harvard was wrong to accept money to honor Marty Peretz, a man with such a hateful, racist legacy.  Your tutors, much of the faculty, and even Professor Tuck stand with me against the actions of the Committee.

Harvard’s legacy, the legacy of Social Studies, OUR legacy must be more than compromising our conceptions of right and wrong, of morality, for money.    And as students of this department, we have a responsibility to demonstrate to the committee that we stand against their actions.

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I am Pro-life

Posted 9/30/10 by Katie Zavadski

Salon has a sobering article on the recent string of suicides among queer youth or youth who are bullied because others think they’re gay. Not that this is any news. Prom season is only four months behind us; I still remember very well the cases of schools not letting kids bring their same sex dates to prom. Just recently, a high school in Michigan stripped a boy of his title as Homecoming King because he is transgender. At Duke, the chair of the Republican club was allegedly ousted because he is gay. And those are just the stories that make it into the news. Now, kids are coming out younger and younger, and schools aren’t prepared to deal. Here are some statistics:

84.6% of queer students experienced harassment in schools in 2008.
72.4% heard homophobic remarks, such as “faggot” or “dyke,” frequently or often at school.
Nearly two-thirds (61.1%) of students reported that they felt unsafe in school because of their sexual orientation, and more than a third (39.9%) felt unsafe because of their gender expression.

This compels me to make a statement about my fellow progressives: As much as it may pain us to use the language, WE are the ones that are Pro-Family and Pro-Life.

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