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Monday, October 25, 2010

How do you feel about identity based housing?

I lived in the queer mod for 3 semesters and I did not enjoy the experience. I never felt "queer" enough to live there because I wasn't interested in going to protests and being active in the social justice side of things. My modmates were always nice enough, but it was a lot of pressure. I think some people really benefit from the experience of having identity-based houses, but personally I'm against the very idea of it based off of personal experience. Those houses create a rift, I think, excluding others from inhabiting them and excluding themselves by barricading themselves from the rest of campus. If you want to make a mod with you and all your queer buddies, that's awesome, but designated Identity-based housing seems wrong on several different levels to me.