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Reed College Students Protest Visiting Boys Don t Cry Filmmaker Over Alleged Transphobia Reed students protested a talk by the director of Boys Don t Cry by putting up posters stating Fuck this cis white bitch. Kimberly Peirce s
Boys Don t Cry, the fictionalized story of the brutal, real life rape and murder of transgender man Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) in Humboldt, Nebraska, On the Reed College campus,
Boys Don t Cry is one of the most controversial and worst received films of 2016.
INTRODUCTION
As I’ve learned from my own experiences in the classroom both as a student and as an instructor, poetry is so often taught badly to us in grade school (if at all). I am, to this day, learning how to undo the myth of poetry being the work of certainty a perfect command of a subject, experience, event proclaimed through verse. This is obviously a byproduct of the ways in which the Western canon is taught: the work of “great masters” whose genius we are trained to admire and respect. But my immersion in queer and disability writing has taught me the value of