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Rites of passage: Calvin “Panel” remarks from 2009
In 2009, I was invited to speak on a panel of queer students at Calvin University. The annual event, known simply as “Panel” amongst LGBTQ students on campus, was almost a rite of passage for us: a way to show that you’d dutifully wrestled with your identity, and had come out the other side jaded,…
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A letter on higher education
Originally written for and published in the Calvin University Chimes in November 2020 in response to proposed cost-cutting measures undertaken by my alma mater directed largely at the humanities. In 2018, I volunteered to help with a mock interview day at Purdue University. As a rule, the students I interviewed were very impressive. I scribbled,…