Oftentimes, there is a divide when talking about Christianity and the LGBTQ+ community. The two are not usually talked about together—the media either publicizes the reality of being a Christian or the reality of being a part of the LGBTQ+ community. But what about those of us who identify as both Christian and LGBTQ+? Unfortunately, […]
As a first-year, one of the first things I did was sign up to write for The Argus. My high school didn’t have a student newspaper, and I had Rory Gilmore-esque dreams of being an editor. Too nervous to conceptualize attending the first meeting, I talked myself out of going. I worried I wouldn’t be […]
It was the last day of sophomore year of college—or my last day, at least. I had opted to leave nearly a week early to start my summer job and was sorely regretting it. (How was I supposed to know, after two semesters of the worst pandemic-infested freshman year on record, when everyone escaped home […]
Socks or no socks during sex? Sex to music or television? Sex in silence? Public or private sex? Rough or slow? With strangers or partners? Nearly everyone has an opinion on how sex should or shouldn’t be done, even if that opinion is that everyone should do what they want in the bedroom. Should everyone […]
Three years ago, I wrote my first ever Argus article. It explored my frustration with the lack of queer spaces at Wes, an institution I assumed would have a more established feeling of queer community as an incoming freshman. Looking back at that article, I have mixed feelings. On one hand, I see an opinionated […]
After midnight, the traffic lights along High Street are excused from telling you how to take turns. They abandon the cycle that involves green and instead leave rudimentary instructions, pulsating with warning colors. The cars on High Street don’t have to stop; they get a flashing yellow signal, which means proceed with caution. And if […]
This past spring, I was hired by Vermont State Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale’s campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives as their Southern Vermont Field Organizer—essentially the point person for everything south of Rutland City. We were competing in a fierce contest for the first open Vermont seat in Congress since 2006, and excitement across […]
The question of whether we can still appreciate an artist’s work while acknowledging that the artist themself is controversial or problematic is one that doesn’t necessarily have a yes or no answer. Recently, Kanye West, whose legal name is Ye, has further committed himself to antisemitic rhetoric and remarks. Ye has long been known for promoting […]
There’s nothing I (Dill) love more than a little chinwag with the girls. Whenever a horrifying or embarrassing situation happens, the only saving grace is the knowledge that I have a story to tell my friends, and even the most stomach-wrenchingly, soul-crushingly humiliating situations have turned into funny little anecdotes. So when you marry my […]
I was Spock for Halloween. The costume itself was a silly affair, as Halloween costumes tend to be, involving affixing the insignia of Starfleet, the central organization of the “Star Trek” world, to my shirt, reshaping my eyebrows to emulate Spock’s iconic, severe look, and applying pointy latex ears over my own. Yet as I […]