Taking Some Terror Away from Homecoming

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Taking Some Terror Away from Homecoming

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leahyouthresource

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 12:06:00 AM EDT

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This Saturday, the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA held their annual homecoming game against James Madison University. As halftime rolled around, the homecoming court took the field for this year's crowning ceremony. This included William and Mary junior Jessee Vasold, a genderqueer-identified persyn. Vasold was elected homecoming queen.

While it strikes me as a tad strange that a binary-centered competition was an activity of interest to a genderqueer-identified persyn, I would never want to judge someone for doing something they want to do. Doesn't that just perpetuate the cycle of gender control, gender normativity, and oppression? I think so.

So, congratulations, Jessee Vasold. Way to bring some revolution right on down in the mainstream.

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Thanks for writing about this... it is great to see something like this happen. I don't really know the attitudes of people at William and Mary college, but I'm sure it took a lot of courage from this person to be the FIRST genderqueer homecoming queen-there is still a hell of a lot of intolerance in the world, and I'm sure this person faced some challenges and hate and when this happened. Great post!

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