UNC Story Archive recording with Katie Hultquist: The Story of Us4 items
Date Deposited: 2021-12-17
Collection: UNC Story Archive (70096)
Collection Number: 70096
Finding Aid: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/70096/
During a remote recording session, Katie Hultquist (Class of 1996), a Morehead Cain Scholar from San Francisco, California, shares how she is “proud to have brought my own strong, feminist voice into spaces like the Greek system” to advocate for LGBTIAQ, BIPOC, and women’s rights on campus. Hultquist reflects on making the “nerve-racking” decision ... Read more
During a remote recording session, Katie Hultquist (Class of 1996), a Morehead Cain Scholar from San Francisco, California, shares how she is “proud to have brought my own strong, feminist voice into spaces like the Greek system” to advocate for LGBTIAQ, BIPOC, and women’s rights on campus. Hultquist reflects on making the “nerve-racking” decision to “step up and out in front of the entire community and many strangers” in The Pit on National Coming Out Day in 1995, saying “I never wanted to apologize for who I was”. Although Hultquist found a supportive community through B-GLAD, the Morehead Cain scholars, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and activist organizations, she explains that it “felt like LGBTIQ people and issues just weren't very visible at the time, though we had our mostly underground culture”. Hultquist is thankful for the friends she made as a student activist on campus and their experiences at Carolina led them to lead “lives committed to social justice work, so I still feel like we're together in these critical movements”.Read less