[All-postdocs] Queer Prom 2025: WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER GRANT

[Colette Kelly]

A reminder to RSVP for the 💃🕺🪩 SIXTH ANNUAL QUEER PROM 💃🕺🪩 !

From: Colette Kelly <colette.kelly at whoi.edu>
Date: Friday, August 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
To: whoi-student-community <whoi-student-community at mit.edu>, all-postdocs at whoi.edu <all-postdocs at whoi.edu>, glow <glow at whoi.edu>, pride <pride at whoi.edu>, socialist at whoi.edu <socialist at whoi.edu>
Cc: Jin-Si Over <jinsi.rj.over at gmail.com>, Dan Lowenstein <dlowenstein at whoi.edu>, Sawyer Newman <snewman at whoi.edu>, Joe Futrelle <jfutrelle at whoi.edu>
Subject: Queer Prom 2025: WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER GRANT
Hello beautiful people! We’re going to need a bigger grant for the…

💃🕺🪩 SIXTH ANNUAL QUEER PROM 💃🕺🪩 at 8pm on Saturday, August 23rd at WHOI’s Fenno Patio (rain location: Clark 5).

PLEASE RSVP by Aug 20th so we can get enough dranks - RSVP FORM<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSfDQQaAX9ea4mwqGWHGVxPfw4jApXf1Cs0V4JIp2LmOFnXEQw%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Ddialog&data=05%7C02%7Call-postdocs%40whoi.edu%7C976570c2da7c413245f108dddf359a04%7Cd44c5cc6d18c46cc8abd4fdf5b6e5944%7C0%7C0%7C638912143544522807%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=KJ4Dz69eIUXBKWT%2FYp5BVohd3GFbHI0TYC2lexjv5hY%3D&reserved=0>

What is queer prom?
It’s a celebration of you and your unique brand of awesome. Let’s be honest, most parties stretching from high school prom to now are boring and have lots of social expectations. Queer prom is better. Queer prom is experimental. Queer prom is everything you wanted high school prom to be. Basically: we dress up all pretty. There’s lots of decorations. We have apps and refreshments and jokes and dancing. A LOT OF DANCING. Our goal is to make you feel good in your own skin.

You might be wondering, "this sounds a lot like prom, where does the queer part come in?" Well, unlike regular prom with its many social expectations, queer prom EXPLICITLY encourages you to break the norm in any way that makes you feel more empowered. Want to experiment with your gender expression? A taboo at regular prom- HELL YES at queer prom. "This isn't what a young professional scientist should wear" you say to yourself. Wear it at queer prom! There's no such thing as gaudy, weird, tacky, etc. at queer prom!

~ALL ARE WELCOME AT QUEER PROM!~ This is an event designed to “queer”/subvert the traditionalism of prom and parties, especially formal ones. It is not a queer-affinity space. However, queer prom is 21+. We don’t serve alcohol, but there will be alcohol at the event.

TL;DR
-Queer Prom is the night of August 23rd @ 8PM, please RSVP<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSfDQQaAX9ea4mwqGWHGVxPfw4jApXf1Cs0V4JIp2LmOFnXEQw%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Ddialog&data=05%7C02%7Call-postdocs%40whoi.edu%7C976570c2da7c413245f108dddf359a04%7Cd44c5cc6d18c46cc8abd4fdf5b6e5944%7C0%7C0%7C638912143544582368%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=G%2FdEQRRIUPIMtyJ5Sop%2B6uaGaOCdjdcb1EaqxwsR0c0%3D&reserved=0>!!

Much Love,
The Queer Prom Committee (which could also be you!!)
Jin-Si, Dan, Sawyer, and Colette
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