by Ishrat Mannan and Didem Kaya “It is Palestine. Not a dream, but a people. Not a refugee camp, but a country alive in its people’s hearts.” – Vijay Prashad “We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be…
Month: October 2015
Who Won the Democratic Debate?
by Javier Cienfuegos This week’s Democratic Presidential Debate spurred a heated conversation online about who actually “won” the debate. According to CNN it was the frontrunner, former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. Various online polls have the not-so-junior junior Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders as the victor. Pretty much everyone agrees that former Rhode Island…
314 Years of Whiteness
by Nicole Chavez Like most of its Ivy League peers, Yale has never been the front-runner on diversity. Established in 1701, the college’s founding purpose was to serve as an institution of higher education where the white, wealthy elite would send their sons to be groomed into polished politicians and stoic stockbrokers. Given the great…
Living With the Fourth Hand Dildo
by Hawa Adula Jess X Chen and Will Giles, two Asian American spoken word poets, performed at the Calhoun Cabaret Monday night and gave all audience members a lesson in intersectionality. The poems covered a range of topics including colonialism, queer love, womanhood, and identity. Chen and Giles’s pieces on colonialism felt particularly riveting in…
Still Sharing: Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2015
by David Rico No longer able to defend Christopher Columbus’s moral character, students at Yale and our peer institutions have challenged the idea of Indigenous Peoples’ Day by pointing to the positive aspects of the Columbian Exchange: corn for beef, squash for wheat, etc. As if any technological advancement or new crop were worth the…