Minus the City: Peach Play with Erin Voss
The prevalence of anal sex is often underestimated; 36% of women and 44% of men report engaging in anal in their lifetime. Yet, sex ed curricula around the country either fail to provide a...
View ArticleMinus the City: Dating’s Domino Effect
If you’re single or dating, you’re no doubt facing challenges during this horrid pandemic. Coronavirus has maybe changed dating forever, but for the better? The pandemic has made dating harder and more...
View ArticleMinus the City: Starting the Year Off Right
Welcome to another year, and with that, another year of Minus the City. I’m excited to see how Colgate’s sex discourse unfolds over these next two semesters, and I hope to facilitate more positive and...
View ArticleDaBaby: Raging Homophobe or Just Closeted?
While it happened over a month ago, the DaBaby controversy still sticks in my mind as one of the most laughable moments in hip-hop history. Not because of the comments he made, but because of how...
View ArticleHow Cis Men and Women Should Respond to New Trans Activism
Nikita Dragun, a celebrity makeup artist, business owner, YouTuber and model, is generally accepted as a problematic person. From her Blackfishing and cultural appropriation to her feuds with other...
View ArticleMinus the City: Here’s the Deal with Alcohol and Consent
*Editorial content warning: this article contains discussion of sexual assault and sexual violence. Our society, and certainly our school, has a complicated relationship with alcohol and consent....
View ArticleMinus the City: Hookup Culture in the Age of Social Media
Imagine this: you’re about to go meet up with some person with whom you want to hook up. You two have been messaging for a bit, and they’ve invited you over to “hang out.” What have you probably...
View ArticleIn Defense of Situationships
“So what are we?” reads the text they sent you last night. You haven’t opened it yet as your read receipts are on, but you feel reluctant to answer them. Within a month of knowing them, you have done...
View ArticleThe Gender Divide in Colgate’s Women’s Studies Department
I have encountered a total of five male-identifying individuals in the three Women’s Studies courses I have taken at Colgate University, and I anticipate I will find a similar skew in the WMST classes...
View ArticleThe Need for Medication Abortion Access on Campus
The Colgate University Collective (CU Collective), a new, student-founded organization of over 60 members, advocates for Colgate Student Health Services to offer medication abortions. It’s important...
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