Item Details

coverage

Winston-Salem (N.C.)

creator

Smith, Catherine

Dua, Raunak

date

2024-04-26

2024-06-20T15:59:04Z

2024-06-20T15:59:04Z

2024-06-20 (issued)

description

Raunak Dua is a third year student at Wake Forest University (class of 2025) and is from the Bay Area of California. Raunak discussed their experiences as a queer person of color trying to navigate the predominantly white queer spaces at Wale Forest and Winston-Salem writ large. They expressed concerns about the lack of a strong community at Wake Forest and the Winston-Salem area, discussing feelings of isolation and the need to look externally to cultivate intimate collectives of queer folk to find and feel supported. Raunak also discussed their involvement with Wake Debate as central to their introduction of queer life at Wake Forest, while later receiving a bit of a culture shock when arriving and discovering that the campus was predominantly white and not very accepting of their queer identity. This interview primarily focuses on some of the challenges of navigating queer spaces at Wake Forest and what queer students and faculty at Wake Forest can do to look to the future of making queer spaces more accessible to queer folks of color.

format

audio/mp3

35:29 minutes

oral histories

Permalink

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/109659

language

English

relation

Special Collections and Archives

Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Wake Forest University

History of Wake Forest University Oral Histories (RG53.1)

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subject

Wake Forest University--History

Queer Public Histories

Expanded Wake Voices

LGBTQ Center

Students--Social life and customs

San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)

Queer Public Histories

Sexual minorities

title

Dua, Raunak (Audio Interview and Transcript)

type

Sound