Open-Mic Night
Attending Open-Mic night at the LBGT center at Syracuse University was an event that I had never attended before. Open-mic night truly changed my thoughts on the LGBT community. As soon as I walked in I was introduced to everyone and felt so welcome. Most times you go to an event that is out of your comfort zone, you feel awkward. The individuals at the LGBT center made me feel the complete opposite. Although I did not share anything and instead sat and spectated, I learned many things through a different perspective. A perspective that I would have never learned sitting in a lecture hall listening to a professor talk. Throughout the night, I listened to many people speak on their experience coming out, being humiliated by people and simply all of the …show more content…
This too, was something I never really thought about before that night but it a very important topic. We were asked to go around in a circle to say both our name and the pronoun we prefer. Most individuals used gender-neutral pronouns such as they, their, them. In the lecture Queer we discussed in class, Professor Riley stated, “The inner sense we have about being male or female, some of us have discordance between our bodies and that inner sense” (11/2). Who says you have to be one gender or the other. At open mic night it was interesting to see a couple individuals that do not describe them as either, they simply describe themselves as “they, their or them”. General neutral pronouns are important because they give the individuals that don’t fit into the two categories of female and male, a sense of belonging. Although general-neutral pronouns are a start, society needs to understand that not everybody fits into specific categories and that everyone should be able to be their own
Attending Open-Mic night at the LBGT center at Syracuse University was an event that I had never attended before. Open-mic night truly changed my thoughts on the LGBT community. As soon as I walked in I was introduced to everyone and felt so welcome. Most times you go to an event that is out of your comfort zone, you feel awkward. The individuals at the LGBT center made me feel the complete opposite. Although I did not share anything and instead sat and spectated, I learned many things through a different perspective. A perspective that I would have never learned sitting in a lecture hall listening to a professor talk. Throughout the night, I listened to many people speak on their experience coming out, being humiliated by people and simply all of the …show more content…
This too, was something I never really thought about before that night but it a very important topic. We were asked to go around in a circle to say both our name and the pronoun we prefer. Most individuals used gender-neutral pronouns such as they, their, them. In the lecture Queer we discussed in class, Professor Riley stated, “The inner sense we have about being male or female, some of us have discordance between our bodies and that inner sense” (11/2). Who says you have to be one gender or the other. At open mic night it was interesting to see a couple individuals that do not describe them as either, they simply describe themselves as “they, their or them”. General neutral pronouns are important because they give the individuals that don’t fit into the two categories of female and male, a sense of belonging. Although general-neutral pronouns are a start, society needs to understand that not everybody fits into specific categories and that everyone should be able to be their own