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Queer Latinx Youth Amplify Their Voices Using Telenovelas
Apr 23, 2021
Screenshot from “Kevin’s Story: Looking Back,” an episode of the telenovela series created by queer Latinx youth who participated in a filmmaking workshop led by Outside the Frame and Oregon State University, with support from ENLACE and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
As a teenager in the ’90s, I looked forward to finishing my homework early nearly every night so I could watch a telenovela with my mom and abuelita. Latin American soap operas captured my imagination most when their melodrama and magical realism addressed social issues. As a queer Latinx youth from Colombia, I sat riveted to the screen when the characters struggled with classism, immigration, and racism. But I was disillusioned because the few queer characters who took center stage reinforced stereotypes and
Wambugu Finds Graduate School Options Plentiful
6 hours ago • April 23, 2021
By Larry Isch
Posted in About
When it came time earlier this spring for University of the Ozarks senior Vivien Wambugu to choose a graduate school in which to continue her education in the fall, she had an enviable problem.
The health science major from Tulsa, Okla., was accepted into four of the top global health graduate programs in the country George Washington University, Vanderbilt University, Duke University and University of North Carolina. She eventually selected Duke’s Master of Science in Global Health Program.
“I was pretty torn between Vanderbilt and Duke because they both offer such great programs and opportunities,” Wambugu said. “My roommate, Crystal Oudomvilay, and I took a week-long trip to visit both schools, as well as the graduate school she got into. On a rainy day, Crystal and I walked to Duke West Campus, where we got to see Duke Global Health Institute, Duke Hospital
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