Mental Illness (Mostly About Depression)

**Trigger warning for a detailed account of my depression symptoms towards the middle of the note, including suicidal thoughts.** Since this has started, I have interacted with a few people who are misinformed. I’m hoping this will be informative to at least one other person to prevent people from accidently hurting their friends. I’ve been depressed on and off for about two months now. I’d never been depressed in my life before. Nothing triggered the beginning of it; it just started all of a

[Queeriosity] The ‘A’ Stands for Asexual

Asexuality is invisible. It isn’t discussed; it’s not on TV, teenagers can’t learn about it in health class. The people who have heard of it usually doubt that it’s even real. I haven’t come out to many people at home. I’ll hint at it, dip my toes into the water — as a senior in high school I told my best friends. I mentioned it to my mother. None of them really believed me. Surrounded by people who had come out to their families, it was strange to realize that I couldn’t just tell people the tr

Sexual Assault: A Co-Complaint

*TRIGGER WARNING: This content deals with an account of sexual assault. The article is contributed by an anonymous Amherst alumna, who along with Angie Epifano, has filed a Title IX and Clery complaint against Amherst College. I am a survivor who graduated from Amherst College this past May despite the administration’s efforts to silence and shame me. I was raped during my Junior year in 2012 by a person I knew in Davis Hall. Word among students was that the Amherst administration historica

Queeriosity: Being Trans* at Amherst

On Friday, Nov. 15, Amherst College Pride Alliance was honored to host Janet Mock, a transgender woman of color, in celebration of Trans*^Awareness Week. Janet is a renowned writer and transgender rights advocate who grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii and thus had a very unique childhood experience. Although Janet was born biologically male, she grew up wanting only one thing — “a chance to be in the right body for the first time in [her] entire life.” There is much to be learned from her experiences,