‘Doing ambiguity’: a Q&A with Lily Zheng
In conversation with The Daily, Lily Zheng discussed the concept of “doing ambiguity” and offered some words of advice for transgender and gender-diverse people in the workforce.
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How Stanford Works tackles institutional change
Last Friday’s event entitled How Stanford Works tackled issues related to the University’s processes for enacting campus-wide policy changes. The program is the first installation of the Institutional Change at Stanford series hosted by Lily Zheng ’17 in collaboration with the ASSU.
Provost, student activist seek to demystify how to change Stanford
When Persis Drell became provost this February, senior Lily Zheng ’17 saw a unique opportunity to improve dialogue between students and administrators. She reached out to Drell to host an event on how to effect change at Stanford.
A photo of every protest: Stanford archivists memorialize activism as it unfolds
From Vietnam-era anti-war posters to photographs of the Fossil Free Stanford protest, the University Archives work to actively transcribe history as it unfolds in the present.
An open letter to anonymous opinions: Sit your ass down
Posting from a place of anonymity doesn’t make your thoughts valid or true. And if you’re not careful about what you’re writing, you can seriously hurt some people.
Stanford students host Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil
About 50 students gathered in White Plaza on the night of Friday, November 21 to participate in a candlelight vigil on the Transgender Day of Remembrance hosted by Stanford Students for Queer Liberation.
How to ace sex: Why enthusiastic consent doesn’t cut it
Asexuality and interactions between other sexual minorities challenge the model of enthusiastic consent, the idea that a certain set of verbal, emotional, and physical cues are needed before consent is truly received. Enthusiastic consent is a theoretical ideal on paper, but a nightmare in real-life intimacy. Worse, the inability of the enthusiastic consent model to move beyond guesswork, cues, and assumptions plays right into normative–straight, white, cisgender, middle-class– ideas about society.
Delaying justice protects no one: A response to Brandon Camhi
Columnist Lily Zheng responds to Brandon Camhi’s piece in The Stanford Review. She defends the ASSU sexual assault reform proposal.
