Category: Amira’s Research

This course has been so critical to my understanding of Amherst College history and its connection to the present. My project in particular has been immensely important to understanding the way that my experience at Amherst as a black transgender person has connected me to a community of other black queer and trans people throughout…Continue Reading Final Reflection

This week, I spent my time in the Archives looking through the Amherst GALA Questionnaire. This questionnaire, put together by Will Dix ’77, served as “the basis of a gay history of Amherst College” entitled Hiding in Plain Sight: A History of Homosexuality at Amherst College. The survey answers provided a great deal of insight…Continue Reading Reflection #2

Over the last few weeks, we’ve begun to get our feet wet in Amherst College history. In order to do so, we read Black Men of Amherst College and Black Women of Amherst College. I found both works incredibly interesting. If anything, I was left with an appetite to learn more and even more questions…Continue Reading Reflection #1