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The '''The Queer Student Union''' is a group of students who share a common interest in cultivating, nurturing, and enriching the queer experience at Williams College. We are advocates for queer perspectives and we work to ensure that the presence and voices of queer students are recognized and respected by college administration, student body at -large, and larger WilliamsCollege community. Through our active presence and involvement on campus, the QSU hopes to confront homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and heterosexism while seeking to understand and address how these interlink with sexism, racism, and classism to perpetuate oppression.

With these goals in mind the Queer Student Union endeavours endeavors to serve a wide variety of functions socially, intellectually, and politically: *'''Socially,''' we organize to create common bonds through conversations, social events, and explorations of queer cultures. *'''Intellectually,''' we serve as a source of information and provide and safe medium for academic discourse, personal reflection, and artistic (re)presentation of queerness and our other intersecting identities.*'''Politically,''' as activists, we work to transform our greater community while recognizing that our goals require a continued process of understanding and addressing all forms of oppression. Gender and sexuality are mobilized in different ways along with race, ethnicity, class, age, and ability in order to privilege some bodies, voices, and actions over others, effectively speaking and acting for others before they do so for themselves.

''Socially'', we organize to create common bonds through conversations, social events, and explorations of queer cultures. ''Intellectually'', we serve as a source of information and provide a safe medium for academic discourse, personal reflection, and artistic (re)presentation of queerness and our other intersecting identities. ''Politically'', as activists, we work to transform our campus and greater community while recognizing that our goals require a continued process of understanding and addressing all forms of oppression, acknowledging gender and sexuality are mobilized in different ways along with race, ethnicity, class, age, and ability in order to privilege some bodies, voices, and actions over others. We work collaboratively with other organizations and institutions, both on and off the Williams College campus, to create safe as well as transformative spaces at Williams for our LGBTQQAAI peers and to serve as a resource for all members of our community who wish to question thoughtfully the ways in which genders and sexualities affect and inform our lives and society.