Eleanor Gully

sgully1@binghamton.edu

37 Articles


Senior Columns

Senior Column: Three rules for life

It’s hard for me to believe that I’ve been writing for Pipe Dream since spring 2019. And it’s even harder for me to believe my entire undergraduate experience is coming to an...


Columns

Margaret Atwood should not amplify transphobic rhetoric

Later this week, Margaret Atwood, author of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” will be coming to campus. For my penultimate column, I don’t want to write a hit piece, but a genuine critique of...


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Weaponizing gender-affirming discourse or health care endangers trans youth

I’d like to finish a two-part column I wrote last month on transphobia. In that one, I wrote on the rhetoric of transphobia but didn’t spend a lot of time on the...


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Legislators mask transphobia with weaponized language

I’m very passionate about ideas I believe in and the policies and positions that I believe are good and moral. But although I may be passionate, it takes a lot for me...


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Political hobbyism perpetuates legislative deadlock

I may have said “new year, same gig” in my last column, but I’d like to briefly reconsider that phrase. Instead of going into the minutia of some current event and relating...


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Senate must confirm Biden's Supreme Court nominee before November

Well, it’s officially 2022. New year, same gig. If you’ve read my columns before, I tend to cover the news, but I also tend to pay attention to more institutional issues like...


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Islamophobic rhetoric from politicians is dangerous

For my last column of the semester, I wanted to bring attention to a developing story. If you’ve taken a look at the political side of social media or read any print...


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The education system fails to teach morality and civics

Well, it appears as though my column about why you should vote didn’t single-handedly swing the results of the Virginia gubernatorial election last month. That remains on the bucket list. With that,...


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Trans-exclusionary language is harmful, disrespectful

If you’ve read one of my columns before, you probably have seen a bit of a pattern: Bring up a current event, talk about its broader implications and why you should care....


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Extremist police pose violent threats to society

Would you trust a police officer to report a crime if you knew they were a far-right extremist? A somewhat loaded question, I’m aware. But think about it for a moment —...