Pride and Protest 🏳️‍ 🌈

June 15, 2022 • View in browser

Good morning. 🌤️ Today, graduating students at Seattle Pacific University stage a creative protest against the school's anti-LGBTQ+ policies, a new film presents a queer Asian American twist on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and the first successfully cloned mouse enters the Smithsonian's collection, among other stories.

— Hakim Bishara, interim editor-in-chief

A Queer Asian American Twist on Pride and Prejudice

In relocating the Jane Austen classic to a contemporary vacation haven, Fire Island explores intersecting issues of race and class in the gay community. | Dillion Heyck

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WHAT'S HAPPENING

SPU students handed Interim President Pete C. Menjares pride flags upon receipt of their diplomas. (screenshots Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic via SPUisGay)

Graduating Seattle Pacific University students staged a creative protest of the school’s ban on hiring LBGTQ+ staff.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has acquired the taxidermy of the first successfully cloned mouse, Cumulina.

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The Bennett Prize’s Call for Entries Is Now Open to Women Figurative Realist Painters

Artists have until October 7 to enter to win $50,000 and a traveling solo exhibition of their work. Learn more.

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Art, With an Asterisk

Artists Jami Porter Lara, Erin Mickelson, and Kate Ruck put terms and conditions front and center. | Amanda Curreri

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UC Davis Humanities Grad Show Shines Light on Art, Music, Political Science, and More

Back in person after two years, this exhibition at the Manetti Shrem Museum showcases work from 27 arts and humanities students. On view from June 2 to June 19. Learn more.

In Venice, a Show Draws Connections Between Colonialism and Marine Ecology

The Soul Expanding Ocean at TBA21–Academy Ocean Space in Venice's Chiesa di San Lorenzo brings together two artists with different but complementary ways of engaging with oceanic histories and ecologies. | Anna Souter

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