ISSUE VII
MAGAZINE
NOVEMBER
1 - Editor’s Letter Livvie Van Lanen 2 - Industrial Riders ALT Photography & Fashion Teams 13 - “Sex Out Loud” Sophia Plzak 27 - “No Plus Sizes on State Street” Adrienne Oliva
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DESIGNED BY | Bevan Alomepe, Samaaya Jayamaha, Eury Kim, & Emma Waldinger
MAKEUP BY | Hannah Janko-Barrios, Sophie Maahs, Adrienne Oliva, Alexandra Perouansky, & Ginger Townsend
PHOTOGRAPHED BY | Sophie Granger, Raven Hall, David He, Fong Lian Lim, Sharon Lin, & Vanessa Weeden
STYLED BY | Allegra Abrams, Sam Anglehart, Kayla Caldwell, Quinn Cassidy, Zach Daily, Allie Fitzwater, Veda Manly, Maryam Muhammad, ZJ Pan, Maxwell Peng, Trey Prater, Alanna Stapleton, Kaoru Ro, Fernando Umanzor, Cloe See Ying Yee, & Nell Yu
INDUSTRIAL RIDERS
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Models | Nyagoah Biel & Jack Greenwood Nyagoah wears thrifted clothes (jacket painted by Kayla Caldwell), Forever 21 hat, Forever 21 shoes Jack wears a thrifted jacket, Rothko vest, thrifted vest, Zara shirt, thrifted pants, Supreme bag, Nike sneakers
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Adrienne wears an ASOS sweater, Gildan hoodie, thrifted skirt, UNIF bag, Urban Outfitters sunglasses Paula wears a FILA jacket, Dickies pants, Urban Outfitters sunglasses Models | Paula Clemente & Adrienne Oliva
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Models | Maxwell Peng, Zawadi Carroll, & Liily Zhu
Maxwell wears a Raf Simons jacket, ACW coat, Burberry jacket, Columbia shirt, ACW bag, Urban Outfitters hat, Caterpillar boots 9
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Zawadi wears a Stampd jacket, Zara coat, BDG jean jacket, ASOS pants, Stussy hat, Puma sneakers
Model | Kayla Caldwell
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Kayla wears a thrifted jacket, Bershka turtleneck, thrifted pants, Supreme bag, thrifted belt, Dr. Marten’s boots
Loud By: Sophie Plzak
Kayla Wasserman and I met up at the Sex Out Loud booth in Library Mall. She and other volunteers were pacing up and down the mall, grabbing the attention of students walking past. She was loud but charming and smiled while leading bystanders to the gallon bag of condoms on the table and handing out informational pamphlets. Coming out of an American education system, her unwavering confidence in discussing things like kinks or pleasure seemed out of place in a school setting– but that is exactly the type of stigma her and the workers at Sex Out Loud work to tear down. I sat down with Kayla to understand what Sex Out Loud does. Kayla is part of an extraordinary group of students seeking to end stigma around sex, educate on safe and effective forms of birth control, and, unlike any other organization on campus, provide a pleasure-based program for students of all sexualities and genders.
SOPHIE: What is Sex Out Loud? KAYLA: Sex out loud is UW Madison’s peer to peer resource. We provide a variety of services to students, such as free safer sex supplies like condoms, barrier methods, sex dams, lube. We also have peer to peer counseling that we offer in our offices. We’re funded through student segregated fees– which, in all, add $500 to every student’s tuition. Seg fees get divided up in different ways. For example, our bus passes are funded that way. We get about 80 cents per student, so less than a dollar per student, but it adds up and we have enough resources to provide all the condoms, lube, etc. We also do programming, which is the main part of our mission. Often, it’s house fellows of dorms requesting us to come in. Our most common programs right now are the Sex Jeopardy and Pleasure programs. We have those, plus a birth control program and an HIV/AIDS program. They’re 90 minutes each and we do a variety of interactive activities; they’re educational but also fun as well.
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SOPHIE: How do students respond in those programs? KAYLA: Most of the time it’s a generally positive response... when I’ve done the Sex Jeopardy it’s normally super hyped up and fun. We open up our programs by saying. “We are your peers. We’re trained by medical professionals, but we’re students like you. We use words that are more medical like perineum and intermammary intercourse, but we also use words like dick and titty-fucking.” Usually, people start laughing, and that’s our warming up process. When we go through our intro, some people are uncomfortable at first, but we have a variety of sex out loud jokes that we like to tell. Just getting people to laugh about sex in a way that’s supportive, and get talking about sex, which is often a really new thing for a lot of students who didn’t have any sex-ed growing up, is important. SOPHIE: In the programs you’ve run, how would you gauge students’ levels of knowledge on sex, in general? How much do they know? KAYLA: We have a required post-survey after the end of all the programs. Besides for the general questions like ‘How old are you?’ we also have questions like ‘How much of the information covered in this program is new?’ The responses vary, but recently in a program, I did the response was like ‘80% new,’ ‘90% new.’ That’s really exciting. It was a Sex Jeopardy program and it asked things like ‘How long is the average clitoris?’ and it’s always wrong. It shows us this really fundamental misunderstanding and lack of knowledge on the human body. SOPHIE: Do you get pushback from students, parents, maybe people in administration? How accepting are they of this? KAYLA: I know that Scott Walker was attempting to make these segregated fees optional. He proposed that people can opt-in to paying these extra fees for services like the bus pass. One of his main points was that this money funds Sex Out Loud, and so we were used as the main argument by Scott Walker. There ended up being a lot of pushback from parents and students, so it is still not optional, and we’re still funded. We all know that if those fees were optional, we would be defunded. SOPHIE: Why are you passionate about sex education? KAYLA: I believe that comprehensive empathy-based sex education could actually change the world. I think that it’s rooted in the way people treat each other, it’s about the way people break down walls of toxic masculinity and it’s about treating people with compassion and empathy. I think it starts at a really young age with teaching our children about how to relate to themselves and each other and it’s about knowing themselves and knowing their boundaries and how to ask each other for what we want and what we need and how to say no. I think our school systems have really failed us. As a country we’ve lost a way of communicating with each other that’s essential. So, I really do believe that comprehensive empathy-based sex education could change the world.
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Liily wears an ASOS jacket, Zara raincoat, ASOS shirt, ASOS shorts, Off-white bag, OBSCR bag, Dr. Marten’s boots
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Yuwen wears a Samuel William jacket, Online Ceramics shirt, Thrifted pants, Carhartt WIP hat, Jordan Retro 7 sneakers Models | Yuwen Zhang, Tony Holmes, & Samuel Wallner
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Models wear thrifted clothing Models | Victoria Millet & Jasmine Kiah
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Samuel wears a Thrifted jacket, Boris Bidjan Saberi vest, Boris Bidjan Saberi shirt, Issey Miyake trousers, Henrik Viboski scarf, Supreme bag, Puma Han Kjobenhavn sneakers 29
Tony wears a Tommy Hilfiger x R jacket, M+RC Noir hoodie, Thrifted turtleneck, Adidas pants, Gosha scarf, Off-white sunglasses, Nike x Supreme sneakers
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Tony wears a Thrifted jacket, Pleasures shirt, Thrifted turtleneck, Ksubi jeans, Off-white belt, Jordan Retro 1 sneakers
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