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Despite the challenges theyve faced, women are and have always been an active part of the gaming community. (Alli Rickards/The Signpost)

Women gamers lagged in past, heard in future

Sierra Hawkins November 9, 2019

The first Google result that appears when “girl LGBT YouTube gamers” is searched is a 2009 video from YouTuber Blunty, titled “Lesbian Gamer Girl is an Idiot.” It's a reminder of...

Honor code creates a climate of paranoia

Honor code creates a climate of paranoia

Sierra Hawkins July 15, 2019

After I read that Emma Gee, a track and cross country runner at Brigham Young University, came out as bisexual, I was happy for her, but I still felt a sense of unease. When I interviewed Gee, she talked...

April Skeem and Brooke Cowley who are both Weber State students put on the panel as part of a senior project. (Kelly Watkins / The Signpost)

How LGBT and LDS church members build bridges together

Sierra Hawkins April 12, 2019

It's no secret that there is tension between the LGBT community and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For people who are "gay and Mormon," this tension is not only an outside...

I missed being able to dream

I missed being able to dream

Sierra Hawkins January 17, 2019

When people hear the word "abuse," oftentimes what comes to mind is physical abuse because it leaves physical evidence. And oftentimes, the narrative of physical abuse is portrayed between people in a...

Q&AA: Questions and asexual answers

Q&AA: Questions and asexual answers

Sierra Hawkins October 27, 2018

The day I realized I wasn’t straight is forever burned into my mind. It wasn’t because my parents yelled at me for being queer, or that the church I went to called me an abomination to god, or...

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Screaming into the void is my pastime

Sierra Hawkins March 31, 2018

Some would say I have never been a well-adjusted individual. Maybe they’re right. After all, we do work together for long hours of the day and spend an uncomfortable amount of time together copy-editing...

Computing English and communicating through code

Computing English and communicating through code

Sierra Hawkins February 15, 2018

The arts and sciences are thought to be opposed. It is a simple case of being either right-brained or left-brained, and people are meant to do one or the other. Disregarding the fact that the brain is...

The never-done-right diagnosis

The never-done-right diagnosis

Sierra Hawkins November 11, 2017

ADHD sucks, but it’s often treated as the disorder everyone and their kid brother has. When it’s on television, the actor portraying it often is jumping off the wall, he’s easily distracted,...

How best to beat the beast of writing

How best to beat the beast of writing

Sierra Hawkins August 31, 2017

In college, you're going to have to write. Writing anything in general is difficult, especially if it’s not something you’ve done because you’ve been out of school for years or your high...

Stuffed back into the closet

Stuffed back into the closet

Sierra Hawkins August 31, 2017

Pride month has come and gone, and so have all of the rainbow flags representing the alphabet soup of sexual orientations and identities in the queer community. It has been two years since same-sex marriage...

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