Interview by Lindsay Neal
Name: Rebecca Heaton
Preferred Pronouns: She/her
Major: Gender Studies
Year: 3rd
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario
Favourite Course: GNDS 321 (Gendering Opportunities – Women’s Work)
As a Gender Studies student, what does Feminism mean to you?
To me, feminism means that I am in the driver’s seat of my own life.
Motivational Quote:
“Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrow discourses, singular stories, and essentialism are harmful. The world is not a black and white place, nor should it be binary. We must pass on to our children stories that will unite them and not separate them, that will show them multiple ways of being.
What is a bucket list item you will accomplish this year?
Volunteer for a mental health initiative.
What are three websites you visit every day?
Buzzfeed, Project Free TV, and Jezebel
Favourite Restaurant in Kingston?
Geneva’s
What is your favourite Queen’s memory?
Homecoming
Favourite Flavour of Skittle?
Orange
How many Taylor Swift songs do you listen to a day?
2 or 3
What is your go-to study spot on campus?
A secluded and quiet area in Stauffer, somewhere in the back preferably.
When in doubt I can always find you…
At the Booster Juice in the ARC
What TV show are you obsessed with right now?
Parks and Recreation/The Mindy Project…It’s impossible to choose!
What book is on your nightstand right now?
Why Not Me? By Mindy Kaling
Name three influential women in your life:
Leslie Knope (she’s fictional but whatever), my mom, and my friend Kyla
This or That
Instagram or Twitter
Tim Hortons or Starbucks
Dine In or Delivery
Coffee or Tea
Early Bird or Night Owl
New Clothes or New Phone
Board Games of Bar
Tina Fey or Amy Pohler