Being a SLAC with a Catholic bent, our president is off listening to the Pope lay down the new directives on education and Catholicism. That'd bother me immensely, except that as I was out to the grocery store today I ran into one of my students who not only told me she'd been accepted into one of the Master's programs she wanted but also invited me to a luau being thrown on campus.
Her parting shot was the best though.
"There's a drag show at six. It should be fun."
I'm almost intrigued enough to go support this. I'm certain no one approved this far up the line - though it probably isn't what I think of when I think of a drag show either. But still, a drag show on a Sunday afternoon at a Catholic school?
Freakin' awesome.
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maybe the show will just be a drag?
April 21, 2008 at 12:46 PMor perhaps performers will be featured dragging an object?
or they misspoke and meant a drag race? (heh--i never really thought about how amusing it would be to combine those two connotations of 'drag' into one event...)
one potential danger: if you go and it's *that* kind of drag show and it ends up being a "let's mock transgender people" thing, you may find yourself in the uncomfortable position of either having to go along with it or be the a--hole professor who speaks up and asks them to questions their assumptions and biases. neither sounds like a fun way to spend a sunday.
I actually decided not to go for that very reason, plus the knowledge that if students got out of control in some way - as they are sometimes prone to here - I didn't want to be anywhere near it.
April 21, 2008 at 2:34 PMI hope it was some good kind of drag show - the student who invited me is generally fairly aware. But still, better safe than sorry. I'll ask how it went though (and may well post on it later).
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