My name is Eugene Delporte and I’m a lesbian Londoner studying music at Goldsmiths. I’m currently the Disability representative at the Goldsmiths Labour Society and before university I was the student leader at my college’s small, local LGBTQ+ society.
As student leader, I naturally provided support to individual peers who were struggling with their mental health, unaccepting families, and other issues faced by many in the queer community today. Having helped others with these problems and having experienced them myself, I would be in a good position to serve as your liberation officer and both help and advocate for my fellow community members.
Additionally, through my long and arduous journey as a queer woman, with an incredibly unstable series of identities and orientations, I’ve ended up being a member of every single sub-community within the LGBTQIA+ umbrella. At least once at some point in my life, I have belonged to every letter of the acronym. Hence me being nicknamed Queen of the Queers.
This also gave me the very unique privilege of understanding the different and unexpected experiences and challenges faced by almost every identity under the umbrella.
I can tell you now that there is more that unites us than divides us as a community.
With this knowledge, I intend to be the most inclusive student liberation officer possible for our LGBTQ+ students and to help every orientation feel included and a part of something bigger.
I believe that LGBTQ+ people need connections with their peers and a sense of belonging to their community to best fight for themselves and for others. Advocacy requires supportive friends and a found family who understands you.
I intend to facilitate that with personalised social events for each subsection of the community. There is no one-size fits all approach.
I believe that themed events would help highlight the diversity of the queer experience, I believe it would help celebrate the often-overlooked and smaller orientations that can feel misunderstood and alienated even within the broader community, and I believe it can help our Queer network grow and be more inclusive to new members and our queer family.
Specialised social events that uplift the micro-cultures and expressions of specific groups like the asexual community, the lesbian community, and the non-binary community would allow for greater representation, a better understanding of our fellow queer students, and a stronger feeling of belonging to a community that benefits everyone.
That will be my goal as your liberation officer. Together we will make Goldsmiths a better place for all of us.
Thank you,
- Mx Eugene Delporte