With the erection of the new residence hall 70 McCormick, room 123 was able to become more than just another dorm room, The Gender, Sex and Sexuality Commons was established and its motto written Concordia res parvae crescunt [Through unity small things grow].  The creation of this center is in direct alignment with the goals of our course—“to explore how gender sex and sexuality intersect with a range of other identity variables such as race, ethnicity, religion, age and disability to complicate what it means to be a man or woman, masculine or feminine, heterosexual, or homosexual and everything in between and beyond these categories.” (Boryczka- Syllabus 1) The purpose of this center is to open up conversations on this campus pertaining to--of course--gender, sex and sexuality and to bring together very different perspectives and ideas that are on this campus.  Although there is no unifying goal or objective for the center there is the main objective to reopen the dialogues and to eliminate the feeling of repression so deeply intertwined in our rather puritanical culture.  The creation of this center greatly reminds me of what we learned in Sara Evan’s Tidal Wave about Second Wave Feminism.  Unlike First Wave Feminism, Second Wave Feminism has no unifying goals or objectives, but there were many issues to be talked about.  Some argue that the equal rights movement was the overall unifying factor, but since that had never come to fruition—it can be deeded that it has either failed or is still continuing. In class on September 22, 2011: we discussed the differneces between the Women's Rights movement and the Women's Liberation movement.  Some of these issues still persist today and are topics addressed by the center.  For instance, the politics of the body and the politics of the family are two areas that are still not resovled today.  With these issues the personal has to become political in order for progress or change to be made.  What can be more personal than the body and/or the family? Nothing.[Except talking about your sexual history.] The body is our billboard--the way we look and perform all realates to the body--the language of our souls and our minds is spoken through movements without us even being full conscious of it.  Considering this, it is important to remember that as a student  atune to the need for solidarity and unity  within the areas of gender, sex and sexuality that we be aware of what is being spoken out loud and through our actions is in accordance with what the Commons aims to do.  There are still strides to be made in Women's rights, as well as rights for the LGBTQ community-- with help from the Commons strides can be made into open up dialogues on campus which can then hopefully be analyzed and abstracted to lead to some sort of action. The Commons also serves as a safe space for students.  Here, the Gaze is removed and students can come to express their feelings and thought regarding all these issues and some inter-related aspects.  The same has occured in our classroom.  This lack of pressure from society and peers creates an enviroment condusive to discussion and action.