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1/29/07

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITED IN SLU'S STUDENT CENTER

CANTON - An exhibition of photographs titled "Support Love," organized by students in the St. Lawrence University course "Sex Talk," will be exhibited in the atrium of the Student Center on campus from February 2 through 28.

It has been organized by seniors Claude W. Bartholomew III, of Middleburgh, New York, and Caroline C. Duda, of Exton, Pennsylvania. Their curators' statement reads, "We believe art is powerful. Art - whether a painting, a piece of writing or a photograph - has the power to inspire emotion, new connections between individuals and greater understanding of the surrounding world. For these reasons, we consider art to be a medium of social change. Our goal in developing the exhibition is to motivate change on the campus. Twenty-five photographs, gathered from a variety of sources, capture the diversity of intimate, romantic, same-sex relationships, while also helping to dispel the dominant discourse that relationships between two individuals of the same gender are shallow sexual connections at best."

The course Sex Talk is taught by Assistant Professor of Performance and Communication Arts Traci Fordham-Hernandez and Professor of Gender Studies Valerie Lehr; in it, students explore and challenge dominant discourses about young adult sexualities."

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