Today marks a very sad anniversary, the one year anniversary of Will's passing. Although it's been awhile since our last update, this blog has served some very important purposes over the last year. We established The William Nicholas Liberi ’05 Prize for TLGBQ Activism and Scholarship, and we awarded the first prize at the Wells College Honors Convocation last Spring. We also raised nearly $2000 in funding, so we know that that prize will have funding to continue on, at least in the near future.
But, perhaps more importantly, the blog provided a space for us to grieve collectively for our friend and former classmate. It has given us a space to voice our remembrances in the company of others who knew Will well. In a way that many of our friends outside of Wells just couldn't understand.
I know that this anniversary day brings back for me a lot of the same feelings I had when I found out about Will's death almost a year ago. I hope that as those feelings come up again for others around this anniversary date that this blog can again be a space for us to share our memories and our grief.
And for people who want to do more than share their memories, there remains an opportunity to join the Advisory Board for The William Nicholas Liberi ’05 Prize for TLGBQ Activism and Scholarship, and help decide who on campus should receive the prize. And of course, there is also the opportunity to donate to the prize once again, to help make sure that Will is honored through the giving of this prize for years to come.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
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Thanks, Carrie, for posting this remembrance. FYI--Vic Munoz and I co-covened a textual roundtable this past year as part of a special "Trans Issue" of WOMEN'S STUDIES QUATERLY (WSQ). The issue is due to be published in December, and there will be an online version of the roundtable that is longer than the published version. Once the URL is available, Vic or I will need to post it here. Many of the people who visit this blog may be interested to read the roundtable, not only because it's on trans issues, but because we both dedicated ourselves to honoring Will's life and to acknowledging his influence on our thinking and teaching. I suspect that some of you will remember the stories we tell about Will, too, and many more of you may recognize (perhaps for the first time) just how much both of us were touched by his teachings. with love, ednie
The author of rememberingwill.blogspot.com has written an excellent article. You have made your point and there is not much to argue about. It is like the following universal truth that you can not argue with: A person who says something is impossible is usually interrupted by the person doing it. Thanks for the info.
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