DOWN Voices Staff Because the social media accounts of Yalies of color give us life. Shoutout to all the white cis men in Race and Gender in American Literature. Facts. Check out more gems from Javier here. Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright, we’re looking at you. Some things just need to be Facebook…
Month: February 2016
A Muslim Writer’s Resolution turned Revolution
by Daad Sharfi I had never been surrounded by so many Muslim writers before. I walked into a lecture hall tucked away in the City College of New York School of Law to attend the Muslim Writers Collective’s first open mic of the year–The Storyteller’s Resolution. I was not prepared for the three hours of…
The quaterback’s double standard
by Madison DeJesus With 44 seconds left on the clock, Peyton Manning, then an Indianapolis Colt, throws an incomplete pass under pressure to Reggie Wayne and guarantees a New Orleans Saints victory in Super Bowl XLIV. With 40 seconds left on the clock Peyton Manning and Reggie Wayne are seen leaving the field before the accustomed…
Top 10 #Woke Pick-Up Lines for Valentine’s Day
by Alejandra Padín-Dujon Hello, all you sexy scholars. It’s almost V-Day, and here at DOWN we’re feeling the love. In fact, we’re feeling so Democratic-socialist generous that we’re opening our playbook to the masses. Hot off the press, we humbly present our #woke pick-up lines. For the comrade: Are you a Marxist? Because you’re leading the…
Making room for Deray Mckesson’s mayoral bid
by Ashia Ajani Right before the deadline to submit documents for the Baltimore mayoral race, Black Lives Matter activist and self-described “child of Baltimore” DeRay Mckesson entered his information and joined the fray. DeRay is a Bowdoin College graduate who taught sixth grade math at Minneapolis Public Schools until quitting his job March of last…