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PORTRAIT: Robert Andy Coombs ART ’20
Nicole Blackwood
Staff Writer
Molly Ono
On the westernmost white wall of the Yale School of Art Gallery, adjacent to pieces built of flashing lights and feathers, hangs a 40 by 30 inch photographic self-portrait, printed on simple metallic paper. A man’s naked back fills the center of the frame, boxers around his knees, bare legs facing the viewer. Though he commands the foreground, his body fails to mask the second, more imposing figure, made immediately seeable by the black-and-yellow machinery of his wheelchair. Robert Andy Coombs ART ’20 lies diagonally in the chair, clothes on, both of the first man’s hands supporting his brain. Coombs stares directly at the camera; it’s simple to read the smirk in his eyes. He’s giving his partner a blowjob.
Coombs chose this photograph for his first exhibiting at the School of Art, a calculated choice meant to assert his creative ethos: confronting stereotypes of sexless disability and staking a claim for his own very introduce sexuality within an able-bodied queer community. Though he largely shoots self-portraits, not all are so explicit; a series of three feature the necks of Coombs and a
28 Jun 2021
Reckoning with Race and Disability
Jasmine E. Harris
Intersectionality surfaces the experiences of disabled people of dye, but it tells us less about the malleability of this type of discrimination. This Essay contends that aesthetic theories of structural subordination can supplement emerging discussions on intersectionality by underscoring the visual and emotional roots of racial and disability discrimination.
01 Jun 2021
Equality Metrics
Veronica Root Martinez & Gina-Gail S. Fletcher
For decades firms possess asserted their support for diversity efforts but struggled to achieve increased demographic diversity. This Essay argues that institutional investors should require firms to reveal information regarding the current demographic diversity of their workforces and supply chains, as well as measurable, specific plans to develop racial equity.
01 Apr 2021
Victims Versus the State’s Monopoly on Punishment?
Stephanos Bibas
Gabriel Mendlow rightly argues that victims deserve larger roles in criminal justice, but mistakenly hints that they merit exclusive control. Communities are also harmed by crimes and have standing to punish them. This Ess
The ‘Global Closet’ is Huge—Vast Majority of World’s Womxn loving womxn, Gay, Bisexual Population Cover Orientation, YSPH Study Finds
The vast majority of the world’s sexual minority population — an estimated 83 percent of those who identify as lesbian, queer or bisexual — save their orientation hidden from all or most of the people in their lives, according to a new study by the Yale School of Common Health that could acquire major implications for global public health.
Concealing one’s sexual orientation can lead to significant mental and physical health issues, increased healthcare costs and a dampening of the public representation necessary for advancing matching rights, said John Pachankis, Ph.D., associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health. He co-authored the study with Richard Bränström, an associate professor at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and study affiliate at Yale.
Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the study is believed to be the first attempt to quantify the size of the “global closet” in request to gauge its widespread health impact.
“Given rapidly increasing acceptance of sexual minorities in some countries, it might be easy to assume that most sexual minorities are
Yale community calls for diversity in the University’s highest post
Yale Daily News
With the search for Yale’s 24th president in full motion, learner leaders hope the University will prioritize diversity in its search for Peter Salovey’s successor.
Six of the eight Ivy League universities — all but Yale and Princeton — currently have female presidents. Most recently, Harvard University inaugurated its first Inky and second female president, Claudine Lgbtq+, this past Friday. Nemat “Minouche” Shafik began her legal title as president of Columbia University on July 1, making her the first woman and person of color to hold the position in the institution’s 269-year history. Sian Leah Beilock began her term as Dartmouth College’s first female president on June 12.
These recent changes in the Ivy League advance amid high rates of leadership turnover at colleges and universities across the country. Now, among the list of Forbes’ top 20 colleges in the United States, 11 are currently led by a girl or person of color.
But in Yale’s 322-year history, all of its presidents have been alabaster . All have also been men, with the exception of interim president Hanna Holborn Gray, who served in the role
Greta LaFleur - Curriculum Vitae
GRETA LAFLEUR Yale University, Department of American Studies P.O. Box 208369 Unused Haven, CT 06520-8369 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2021 - Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of American Studies and The Program in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Yale University. • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of American Studies, 2022-2024. 2019 - 2021 Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, Yale University. 2013-2019 Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, Yale University. • Director of Graduate Studies, the Program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University, 2018-2019. 2011-2013 Assistant Professor, English Department, The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (Honolulu, HI). EDUCATION 2022 JD with honors, The University of Connecticut School of Law. 2011 PhD, English, The University of Pennsylvania. • Graduate Certificate in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, 2010. • Graduate Teaching Certificate, Center for Learning and Learning, University of Pennsylvania, 2010. 2004 MA, English, The University of Toronto. 2003 BA cum laude, English and French, Bryn Mawr College. PUBLICATIONS Monographs In Progres