Just Telling It Like It Is

The only thing we love more than a new Veiled Conceit post, is a Veiled Conceit post that makes fun of Smith College. And here we see the mysterious Zach does his research. From the footnote making fun of the announcement with a Smith Bride:

"I was checking out the Women's Studies program at Smith for an easy joke, but instead found the "Queer Studies" program. I suppose it'll help us all out to analyze "antinormative sexual identities, performances, discourses and representations in order ultimately to destabilize the notion of normative sexuality and gender," but one thing about the program made me laugh. Buried within courses titled "Queer Resistances," "Queer Globalizations," and "Lesbian Identity and Experience" was the curious "Contemporary Canadian Drama". Is there something about contemporary Canadian drama that I don't know? What are those Canucks up to up there, ya know? I'm serious."

Hail fair Alma Mata! Is this a good time to mention that my first year at Smith I was leaving the Celebration of Sisterhood (now known as the Celebration of Siblinghood to be more "trans-inclusive") a group was staging a protest that involved two people laying on the ground dressed like a corpse-like Bride and Groom while other members of the group shouted "Marriage equals death! Fight heteronormativity!"

Ah, good times. Good times, ladies.