by Sebastian Medina-Tayac, Camila Guiza-Chavez, Oscar Garcia-Ruiz, and Laura Plata Rain slid down Alicia Camacho’s face as a police officer started to cuff her red-gloved hands Tuesday afternoon. Camacho, the associate master of Ezra Stiles College and a professor of Ethnicity, Race and Migration, wore the gloves to dramatize the message of the banner she…
Month: February 2016
The State of GESO’s Union: Signatories of the Open Letter to GESO Leadership Speak Out
by Holly Chung The Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) is used to opposition from Yale’s top administrators, who don’t want to negotiate with yet another labor union. But recent public criticism among its own constituents has catapulted GESO into the spotlight in an unprecedented way. An “Open Letter to GESO Leadership” expresses profound concerns…
8 Things That Will Happen Before Frank Ocean Drops His New Album
by DOWN’s Editorial Board 1. Race & Gender in American Literature will get enough TAs 2. ER&M will get departmental status 3. We’ll finally know what the Schwarzman Center is for 4. Yale will have as many tenured Native faculty members as it has war criminals 5. Hillary Clinton will successfully hit the quan 6. Macklemore…
Altered State
by Eugene Lim Looking up at Zwe Mon’s The Gaze (2013), it’s hard not to be struck by the strange proportions of its subject: a heavy-lidded woman stretched vertically across the canvas, glowering. She’s off-center; the viewer searches for balance, travelling up an elongated torso and returning to her face. But her eyes are downcast….
The Oscars: Anti-Black, Anti-White, or Anti-Film?
by Matt Thekkethala Here’s what we know: Last year, every single person nominated for an Academy Award for a performance in a motion picture was white. This year, every single person nominated for an Academy Award for a performance in a motion picture is white. This phenomenon is systemic. There are more white actors, producers,…