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Fetch some earl gray and a scone because we’ll be taking a glance to see where strong Bridgerton women would find their calling here at UC Berkeley.

If the history of queer female representation in film and television has taught us anything, it’s that representation tends to come at the expense of misrepresentation.

The players emerged from backstage donning purple velvet pants, gold vests, blond wigs and puffy white shirts, and the crowd was welcomed to the Globe Theatre in the year 1608.

Amidst all of this freedom — all of this talk surrounding the reclamation of female bodies and the reconfiguration of lives separate from biological need — comes a dangerous rhetoric about responsibility and accountability when it comes to unwanted pregnancy.

Now, usually, I would present a single, parable-ish narrative that highlights the existence of the patriarchy. But over the past few years, I’ve found it hard to only talk about one uncomfortable experience because there have been so many.