Publications
Look at R Hunsicker’s published and forthcoming peer reviewed essays, poetry, visual art, and other creative scholarship.
Public Scholarship
Toman, Lindsay and R Hunsicker. 2025. “Triggering Affirmations: Trans Adolescents’ Experiences with Menstruation and Gender Identity Construction.” Peitho Journal.
Ace Community Survey Team. 2024. "2022 Ace Community Survey Summary Report." https://acecommunitysurvey.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2022-Ace-Community-Survey-Summary-Report.pdf.
Hunsicker, R. 2024. “Unexpected Validation and Resistance: The Impact of Abstinence-Based Education on My Coming Out as Asexual.” AZE. https://azejournal.com/article/2024/10/10/unexpected-validation-and-resistance-the-impact-of-abstinence-based-sex-education-on-my-coming-out-as-asexual.
Poetry
Hunsicker, R. 2025. “not all beacons are made of light.” AZE 7(4). https://azejournal.com/article/2025/7/21/not-all-beacons-are-made-of-light.
Hunsicker, R. 2025. “Queering Cooking.” Allegorical Athena, 23(2). https://wmst.colgate.domains/allegoricalathena/queering-cooking/.
Hunsicker, R. 2024. “I am done explaining and am ready to be.” AZE, 6(4). https://azejournal.com/article/2024/7/1/i-am-done-explaining-and-am-ready-to-be.
Hunsicker, R. 2024. “Un/popular Opinions Harm.” Allegorical Athena, 22(2). https://wmst.colgate.domains/allegoricalathena/un-popular-opinions-harm/.
Hunsicker, R. 2024. "drifting thoughts while waiting for the gender neutral bathroom in case-geyer library.” Allegorical Athena, 22(2). https://wmst.colgate.domains/allegoricalathena/drifting-thoughts-while-waiting-for-the-gender-neutral-bathroom-in-case-geyer-library/.
Hunsicker, R. 2024. “Women's.” Allegorical Athena, 22(2). https://wmst.colgate.domains/allegoricalathena/womens/.
Hunsicker, R. 2024. “When I Was Chill.” Allegorical Athena, 22(2). https://wmst.colgate.domains/allegoricalathena/when-i-was-chill/.
Hunsicker, R. 2024. “plights of learning a forgotten past.” The Colgate Portfolio, Issue 40.
News Articles
2024. “Letter to the Editor: Let’s Talk About Colgate’s Inaccessibility Problem.” Article by Grace Dow, Jadan Hand, R Hunsicker, and Rachel Plasky on the Colgate Maroon-News.
2024. “Letter to the Editor: Gay Culture as a Multidimensional ‘Issue’?” Article by Jose Arriaza, Oscar Brown, Yeraldi De Los Santos, Mar Gardinier, R Hunsicker, Ernie Nelson, Quinlan Owens, Jordan Smith, and Salem Spkpoli on the Colgate Maroon-News.
Creative
Scholarship
Hunsicker, R. 2025. “Building the Foundations for Friendship: A Pink Haus History.” Allegorical Athena, 23(2). https://wmst.colgate.domains/allegoricalathena/building-the-foundations-for-friendship-a-pink-haus-history/.
Halberstam, Jack, Lyosha Gorshkov, and R Hunsicker. 2025. "The Past as the Key to the Future: Reinstating Queer Activism and Community Practices from an Era Before the Cell Phone.” Allegorical Athena, 23(2). https://wmst.colgate.domains/allegoricalathena/the-past-as-the-key-to-the-future-reinstating-queer-activism-and-community-practices-from-an-era-before-the-cell-phone/.
Hunsicker, R and Noha Shabah. 2024. “Asexuality’s Glorious Queerness.” Produced by the Center for Women’s Studies, Colgate University. March 21, 2024. Podcast, 31:53. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/colgate-womens-gender-and/episodes/Episode-2-Asexualitys-Glorious-Queerness-e2hd0qc.
Hunsicker, R. 2024. “Unearthing Hidden Stories: The Asexual Experience at Colgate University.” (Zine). Hamilton, NY. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tR1Uw4iSWDD_hos4m61gDXcWby4IkGsF/view?usp=sharing.
Hunsicker, R. 2024. “Coming Into My Own.” AZE, 6(3). https://azejournal.com/article/2024/4/19/untitled.
Hunsicker, R. 2023. “Untitled.” Allegorical Athena 22(1). https://wmst.colgate.domains/allegoricalathena/165/.