The president of Whitman College conducted the wedding ceremony for an anti-Trump lesbian and her “wusband,” reports the Whitman Wire. A Whitman student who went to the wedding said the ceremony was like a “giant fuck you to [the] Trump admin.”
President Sarah Bolton officiated at the wedding of Lita Bacus, a senior at Whitman College, and “nonbinary lesbian” Fi Black. At the ceremony, “dyke” rings were exchanged. The nuptials occurred in the college’s Olin Hall.
Black was described as the “wusband.” A “wusband” is “the ‘husband’ in a lesbian marriage who does all the ‘manly’ chores and helps to raise & discipline the kids rather than be the pregnant one,” as defined in UrbanDictionary.com,
Bacus invited all of the college town in which Whitman College is located to her “Big Gay Wedding,” which she touted as a “performance, a protest and a celebration.”
The wedding dress code was “dyke decadence,” and rather than gifts, the wedding invitation asked attendees for “donations to LGBTQIA+ causes.”
“Dykes are sacred,” “dyke love is holy,” and “sapphic saints” were written across pews in the wedding site.
Bridesmaids scattered dental dams rather than the flower petals customarily sprinkled at weddings.
The wedding invitation said:
Because joy is resistance. Because marriage is a performance a state-sanctioned contract, a ritual, a public declaration-and here, it becomes a protest, a necessity, a survival strategy in the face of systemic oppression …
This piece is a response to the real and immediate dangers posed by anti-queer legislation. By bringing this act into the gallery space, the audience is forced to confront its material, legal, and emotional stakes. It is a protest, yes, but it is also a wedding. It is art because it is life, performed. It is art because levity belongs in protest. Because beauty can be defiant. Because queer love, in a world that fights to erase it, is art.
