understanding of the interconnected messages and rituals of everyday life that construct standards of gender and sexuality. All of my work during this semester concluded with a reflection of my findings, where I realized that I had expected a great deal of regressively gendered messages, but found that my initial expectations were wrong. I looked through all of the work I had done with and related to the center and saw that the WRC is really an organization that lives up to its mission statement and follows through in its messages about inclusion and critical awareness.

               In the spring semester, I started an independent internship through the social justice department, again with the WRC. For this semester's internship, I decided to form my own position that focused on the strengths that I had found and developed in the fall. The position that I formed, Strategic Outreach Intern, was focused on using my interpersonal skill to connect with intercampus organizations as well as outside entities in an effort to create a collaborative, community-focused environment within the WRC. A big project that I worked on was working with the student government to raise awareness of the WRC and to secure funding for future annual budgets, resulting in an allocation of $3000.

               As an additional component of registering an independent internship through the Social Justice Department, I had to lay out some goals for the semester, as well as ways to prove my growth. Part of demonstrating this growth is present on this web page as well as in the reflective essay, but I also lined out two specific pieces of original content that I intended to produce. The first of these was a literature review of the history of women's centers on university campuses with a focus on intersectionality and student satisfaction. the second of the artifacts that I produced was a report highlighting the voices and concerns of genderqueer students in relation to their institutional experiences at Hamline.