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In late August, Djuan Porter, also known as Black Dahlia, won a New York drag pageant all from the comfort of her Phoenix home. Instead of performing in front of a live audience, Dahlia performed alone, in front of a screen.
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In late August, Djuan Porter, also known as Black Dahlia, won a New York drag pageant all from the comfort of her Phoenix home. Instead of performing in front of a live audience, Dahlia performed alone, in front of a screen.
9:03 a.m. - I walked into one of ASU’s state-of-the-art testing facilities located in Sun Devil Hall, my home for the next 10 hours and a permanent home for asbestos. I informed the facility workers that I was not there to be tested, only to observe. They quickly told me they needed to keep a sterile environment, so they handed me a moist towelette with an expiration date of March 2003. I waited for the first people to arrive and my eyes began to scour the room in front of me. Near the entrance was the check-in table with three lines labeled “Symptomatic,” “Asymptomatic” and “Geminis.” On the wall behind the check-in, I noted a counter that read “13 minutes since our last positive case.” In the corner, a birthday clown blows up balloons that say “We got this!” seemingly for motivational support. Big white tarps have been erected to form several sections of small three-sided cubicles each containing a single chair, and in the center of the room, two armed guards pace back and forth.
Packing up and moving back home is probably not how most students envisioned their spring semester and summer in 2020. For Kai Graham, a sophomore studying cybersecurity, moving in with their parents was especially difficult. As a transgender and nonbinary person, Graham was quarantined with family members who were unsupportive or unaccepting of them.
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Every semester, students engage in the new opportunities that education presents them. Some of them have been preparing for these moments their whole lives. Some of them have just discovered a new passion, or maybe they are continuing their pursuit of a skill they have been practicing their whole life. Either way, many of these students will, at some point, feel like a fraud.
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