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The Other Dress: July Edition

By Aidan Mouellic, Staff Writer

 

Science-transfer student

same time.”

well. Probably Lady Gaga.”

 

Angelica Cardiff

   

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How would you describe your style?: “Sort of laid-back and edgy at the
Worst dressed celebrity?: “I don’t know. I don’t really know celebrities that

Most desired clothing item?: “Nice jackets.”
How much would you have to be paid to wear lingerie for a day?: “It
would have to be a lot. I’m not a very open person.”
How would your mom dress you?: “Probably more girly clothes, dresses.”

 

 

Tyler Wang

Communications-transfer student

How would you describe your
style?: “Active, sports...anything
outdoors, snowboarding, surfing,
swimming, and casual attire.”
Worst dressed celebrity?: “People
who are over-trying. I don’t pay too
much attention to celebrities, but I
like simple style.”

Most desired clothing item?:
“Anything black shirt. My favourite
shirt right now is the Steve Jobs shirt.
I just need some New Balances and
crappier jeans.”

How much would you have to be
paid to wear lingerie for a day?: “It
depends who asks. It depends what
it’s for. It could be a lot of money, or
it could be for free: depends on the
circumstances.”

How would your mom dress you?:
“She’s a Buddhist practitioner, so she would probably want me to wear
something really big and floating, like those kung fu masters, that’s what
she wears.”

 

 

 

Between the Sheets: Douglas College

Sex positivity ina
college setting

By Viv Steele, Pro-sex Warrior

[es been writing my sex
column in The Other Press for
eight months now, and it’s still
a challenge to gauge the sexual
climate at Douglas College. Are
students thinking about sex? Are
they having it? Are they reading
my column? For our sex-themed
July issue, I wanted to doa
state-of-sex address to students,
to shed some light on the types
of services that the college and
the Douglas Students’ Union
(DSU) can offer to students. To
help me answer some questions,
I turned to the front lines of
sex positivity on campus, Milo
Leraar, the DSU’s Pride Liaison,
and Shila Avissa, DSU Member
at Large and former student
staff of the Women’s Centre at
the New Westminster campus.
Avissa told me briefly about
what the Women’s Centre has to
offer to women with questions
about sexual health: “Aside
from providing free condoms,
usually the role of the student
assistants is to refer students

to the appropriate agencies

in the Lower Mainland that
provide sexual health services,”
acknowledging that the centre
“still [needs] to provide more
non-heteronormative safe sex
kits such as dental dams, gloves,
lube, et cetera.”

There’s one tiny problem
with the Women’s Centre on
campus: it doesn’t seem to
be open. Leraar had a few
comments to make on the
cutbacks at the Women’s Centre.

greater funding that the centre
sees from the college, it can
operate with greater efficacy:
“While the Women’s Centre
is funded by the college, then
there are college-paid employees
and counsellors who can work
there,” allowing for greater
coverage than the time-crunched
volunteers at the DSU can offer.
With a lack of pro-sex or sex
positive resources for students
that are directly provided by the
college, it’s the Students’ Union

dams and lube coming in pretty
soon.” Currently, the Pride
Centre is open to anyone who
feels like they need to access
the space. Leraar stressed the
importance of keeping the space
inclusive of people who aren’t
necessarily LGBTQ, because
during college some people
might be closeted or straight-
identified and wanting to learn
more.

In my storied career at
post-secondary institutions, I’ve

With a lack of pro-sex or sex positive resources for students that

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students about sexual issues.

“It seems obvious to me that
what they’re doing is trying to
[say] “Oh, well nobody uses it
anyway so what's the point of
having it,’ which is what they
did to the Pride Centre a really
long time ago. That’s why it’s
in the DSU,” Leraar tells us. If
the Women’s Centre ceases to
be a college-funded resource for
students, Leraar says it’s likely
that the DSU will pick up the
slack, but cautions that with the

and the Pride Centre that end
up picking up a lot of slack for
educating students about sexual
issues.

Leraar mentions that the
Pride Centre is in the process
of moving to a different space
in the DSU building, and adds:
“Right now we do have just
fairly basic services: we have
a resources library, we have
condoms, and we're getting
internal condoms and dental

are directly provided by the college, its the Students Union and
the Pride Centre that end up picking up alot of slack for educating

noticed that Pride Centres are
often a place of sex positivity
and openness. Leraar says
there’s a reason behind that:
“When you get a community
[where] most of the people
have just done more thinking
and talking and analyzing of
sexuality and sex it just makes
spaces which are a bit more
open.”

College is a time of sexual
experimentation, and Leraar

thinks that colleges have a role
to play surrounding students
education about these issues,
mostly related to consent and
safer sex. The college has a
responsibility to make sure that
counsellors are knowledgeable
about consent and safer sex
practices, for straight and
cisgendered students as well as
queer and transgender students.
Leraar also mentioned the fight
for a queer space at the David
Lam Campus, where DSU
services are limited because of
space constraints.

I believe that college is a
place of learning, education,
and experience—which often
includes sexual experience.
Leraar explains it: “A lot of
people who attend college
are within the age range that
is like, largely sexually active
but also largely ignorant about
what they’re doing. College is
supposed to be a place where
we learn life skills. I think a very
important life skill is how to
navigate sexuality, relationships,
and consent.”

If you have any comments
or questions or if there’s
anything you'd like to see in
Between the Sheets, please e-mail
me at sex@theotherpress.ca!

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