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Friday, November 19, aoio | The Red * Black
Gender identity not black and white
By DREW HOOKS
The Red & Black
One out of 12.
That’s the odds of a
transgendered person
being murdered. Thursday,
the LGBT Resource Center
partnered with Lambda
Alliance to sponsor a
Transgender Day of
Remembrance program at
the University.
The program ended with
a discussion led by Ryan
Sallens, a health educator,
transgender activist, actor
and writer.
Sallens, a transgender
female to male, shared his
experience growing up in
rural Nebraska and strug
gling with his sexuality.
Before he was bom, his
parents were ready for a
male, he said. He was bom
female, but he never asso
ciated with being a girl.
His dad would call him
princess when he was little
but Sallens said that would
only annoy him.
"I knew I was not a prin
cess,” he said. “I was
Indiana Jones or
Superman.”
Sallens said he was
picked on throughout
school, was bullied by his
sister and received a lot of
verbal abuse from his
father.
After a long struggle
TRADITION: History does not demean holiday
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Anti-Thanksgiving protests have
been popping up around the nation,
spurred by Native American protes
tors, as Thanksgiving remains a holi
day rife with historical speculation.
“Something took place,” said
Ervan Garrison, professor of anthro
pology and member of the University’s
Institute for Native American Studies
steering committee. “Whether you
call it Thanksgiving or you call it
‘Let’s all come over for dinner,’ I
don’t know.”
Garrison grew up in Oklahoma,
surrounded by Choctaw relatives and
other tribal affiliates. He said
Thanksgiving was typically recog
nized by all different kinds of people.
“If they weren’t celebrating, they
sure took the day off,” he said.
Jace Weaver, director of INAS,
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with suicidal fantasies,
anorexia, bulimia and gen
eral body hate, Sallens said
he finally came out because
of encouragement by a
group of gay friends and
began his journey in dis
covering his sexuality.
Sallens now tours the
nation giving lectures in
order to educate people
about being transgender.
He compares gender
and sexuality to making
bread. As the same ingredi
ents mix to get a different
batch of bread, so do
humans produce other
humans whose sexualities
are not black and white.
Sallens said society
needs to get rid of the belief
there is only male and
female and should instead
allow children to decide for
themselves as humans have
a sense of gender identity
as early as two years old.
The event is to educate
the University about what
it means to be transgen
dered, said Jennifer
Miracle, director of the
LGBT Resource Center.
Skyler Musgrove, a fifth
year senior from
Douglasville majoring in
mass media arts, anthro
pology and new media, said
as a transgender female to
male, this event is impor
tant for raising awareness.
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to not celebrate Thanksgiving.
“What you would have is a spec
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said. “It’s not a religious holiday, cer
tainly it’s a national holiday. Things
were pretty fine between the natives
and the pilgrims at that time. It was
fine for a day, but the relations were
pretty good. It coincides with the
native harvest festival, but the
natives, as I understand it, didn’t
bring turkeys necessarily.”
Laura Adams Weaver, an English
instructor and another member of
the INAS steering committee, can
trace her family lineage back to
Choctaw and Cherokee roots.
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the historical inaccuracies, but
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shared his experience growing up at Thursday’s
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he is downtown, but the
exclusion of gender identi
ty and expression in the
University’s discrimination
policy is unnerving for him.
“It makes me not feel
safe,” he said.
said. “I think a lot of people accept
the intention to tell a story of toler
ance even if the story that’s told is
ironically not a very tolerant bunch
of people.”
This Thanksgiving, Hickson said
she’s grateful for one thing in partic
ular the traditions of strength and
honor that stem from her Native
American background.
“Not everybody has a Norman
Rockwell story,” she said. “There are
a lot of things that we’ve done, good
and bad, throughout our nation’s
history, and you know, you can’t
sweep it under the rug and you,can’t
put a fresh coat of paint on it. It’s our
history. It’s how we became what we
are. But Thanksgiving is a holiday to
be thankful for what you have, and I
am thankful for my family’s heritage
and the qualities that that has
instilled in me, and I’m thankful for
living where I do.”
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GRIME NOTEBOOK
Chicken nugget theft
leads to barring notice
for student
A University student
was barred from all
University Pood Services
retail outlets for one year
Tuesday after attempting
to steal chicken nuggets,
according to a University
Police report.
Officials at the Bulldog
Cate told officers that
Colin Maddox, 21, took a
12-piece chicken nugget
box without paying at
about 11:30 a.m.
Maddox agreed to pay
for the nuggets, valued at
$5, when staff members
stopped him before he
could leave, according to
the report.
Maddox was issued a
barring notice on
Wednesday listing all
retail outlets he was
barred from.
He said he did not
expect to be banned from
University Pood Services
outlets.
“I was under the
impression that nothing
would happen since I
paid for the food and
apologized,” he told The
Red & Black. “It doesn’t
affect me that much. I
would say my only con
cern is if that would show
up on my record while
applying to jobs.”
Maddox also said he
attempted the theft
because of financial prob
lems, and that he felt
there is lack of aid on
campus for needy stu
dents.
“Everyone talks about
the broke college student,
but there’s a line*between
being broke and having
to steal to eat,” he said.
“There’s a certain point
where you realize you
haven’t eaten in 24 hours
and start thinking about
where you can get food.
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Police Documents
I’m already taking out all
of the financial aid and
Pell Grant and loan
money I can. I personally
would like to see some
thing for needy students
on campus.”
Reported shoplifting
leads to arrest
A University student
was arrested Wednesday
and charged with shop
lifting following the
observations of University
bookstore employees,
according to a University
Police report.
Bookstore employees
reported that William
Brent Kirkland, 31, shop
lifted four gray University
Law School T-shirts at
about 12:30 p.m.
Wednesday.
The total value of the
stolen items was $72,
according to the police
report.
Officers detained
Kirkland on Lumpkin
Street after patrolling for
a person matching his
description.
After store employees
identified him, Kirkland
was arrested and found
to be carrying four gray
T-shirts, which were iden
tified as the T-shirts
taken from the store,
according to the report.
The stolen articles
were returned to the
bookstore.
Video footage obtained
from the bookstore
showed the offender tak
ing the T-shirts.
Kirkland was trans
ported to Clarke County
Jail.
Compiled by
Tiffany Stevens
Managing Editor
Carey O’Neil
(706) 433-3026
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