An illustration in two parts. In the top part, a woman drawn entirely in black kneels in front of a small altar. She appears frustrated and tired as she prays. The second image is colorful, drawn in purple and yellow. In it, a standing woman caresses the face of a woman kneeling. They are looking at each other with love.
Creative Writing

Where I Feel God

An illustration of a syringe puncturing a colorful, splotchy "ceiling".
Community

The “Rainbow Ceiling” in Healthcare: Characterizing Modern Inequities in Healthcare & Health Education

A marker illustration of a bust of Sappho overlaid with a swatch in the colors of the lesbian flag.
Arts & Entertainment

Sappho in the Modern Day

A monocolor illustration of a young Korean man and woman, smiling with their arms thrown over each others' shoulders. Handwriting in the top left corner reads "Love in the Big City"
Arts & Entertainment

Love in the Big City: Heterobaiting and Queering Relationships in Korean Media

A two-color illustration of a silhouette of Donald Trump's head. Silhouetted against the head is two people, one helping the other up.
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Donald Trump’s Election and How to Keep Going

An illustration of the PAW mascot, a raccoon holding a pride flag and wearing a lime bucket hat at a campground.
Community

Pride Admit Weekend Needs You!

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An illustration in two parts. In the top part, a woman drawn entirely in black kneels in front of a small altar. She appears frustrated and tired as she prays. The second image is colorful, drawn in purple and yellow. In it, a standing woman caresses the face of a woman kneeling. They are looking at each other with love.
Where I Feel God

I feel God in the cats on the side of the road/ Huddling for warmth.

Arts & Entertainment

A marker illustration of a bust of Sappho overlaid with a swatch in the colors of the lesbian flag.
Sappho in the Modern Day

Charlie Richmond/OutWrite Content warning: Discussion of lesbophobia. “someone will remember us I say even in…

Opinion

A black-and-white Victorian-era photograph of two white AMAB people dressed as women.
Misgendering the Misgendered

I first witnessed a transgender character misgendered by her own author in “The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman,” a short story published anonymously in 1857. The text was assigned for a queer short stories course at UCLA, and while I wasn’t surprised that a transgender character was misgendered by a writer in 1857, I was surprised that a professor of queer studies in 2023 would as well.

Welcome to OutWrite!

Established in 1979 at the University of California, Los Angeles, OutWrite Newsmagazine is the oldest queer college publication in the United States. OutWrite strives to build a growing educational platform through a multi-media approach that uplifts and empowers the often silenced voices of the incredibly diverse queer community. We aim to challenge dominant cisheteronormative narratives through an unapologetically anti-queerphobic, anti-racist, and progressive lens.

An illustration of a syringe puncturing a colorful, splotchy "ceiling".
Community
The “Rainbow Ceiling” in Healthcare: Characterizing Modern Inequities in Healthcare & Health Education

Katelyn Lee/OutWrite Content warning: Discussion of HIV/AIDS-related stigma (serophobia) Even in 2024, the American Medical Association’s (AMA) first openly gay president, Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, needed to talk about the fight against workplace discrimination in a healthcare system already battling “record…

A two-color illustration of a silhouette of Donald Trump's head. Silhouetted against the head is two people, one helping the other up.
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Donald Trump’s Election and How to Keep Going

Katelyn Lee/OutWrite Content warning: mention of suicide, discussions of transphobia. President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2025. As of Jan. 24th, Trump has already signed numerous harmful executive orders. In addition to pardoning over 1,000 individuals charged with…

A green sign being held in a march. It reads "!Lucharemos Hasta Vecelros!"
Community
Stand Up, Fight Back! AFSCME 3299 Workers and Student Advocates Strike

On Nov. 20 and 21, Local 3299 workers picketed in front of the Ronald Reagan Medical Hospital, Luskin Conference Center, and at Bruin Plaza from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Across the UC campuses, more than 37,000 workers joined the AFSCME picket lines. Students demonstrated in solidarity, mobilized by the Student Labor Advocacy Project (SLAP) at UCLA. 

A student member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) speaks at the press conference announcing the lawsuit.
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Students and Faculty Sue UC Regents Over Free Speech Infringement During Pro-Palestine Encampment

Four UCLA community members are suing the UC Regents for violating the First Amendment right to free speech and allowing police and a Zionist mob to brutalize members of the non-violent encampment in Spring of 2024.

A group of diverse people standing on a lawn holding Dom Jones for Assembly signs. Among them is Dom Jones, a Black woman with colorfully dyed locs.
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A New Face for OC: Meet Dom Jones

Amid this 2024 election season, which has all of us holding our breaths, one candidate is working to change the narrative for Orange County, California. Dom Jones (she/they) is a queer Black woman who has been fighting for the rights of queer existence in the Huntington Beach area, and is now trying to expand her fight to becoming the representative for California State Assembly District 72.

Student protestors hold up large signs which together read "Cancel RIMPAC".
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Cancel RIMPAC! Student Perspectives on Resisting the U.S. War Machine

This is an interview with two student activists regarding their experience at Cancel RIMPAC 2024. The International Cancel RIMPAC Campaign is dedicated to organizing and mobilizing in opposition to the Rim of the Pacific exercise (RIMPAC), an imperialist joint military exercise led by the United States.

A crowd of anti-RIMPAC protestors with banners and flags gather in front of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier.
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 The Human Cost of RIMPAC and Calls to Resistance

The Rim of the Pacific exercise (RIMPAC) is the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise, hosted by the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet Command in conjunction with 28 partner nations and the U.S. Marine Corps, Air Force, Army, and Coast Guard. The 2024 exercise marked the 29th year since 1971 that the event, held biennially because of its large scale, took place in American-occupied Hawaiʻi.