by Sohum Pal (Contributing Writer) I’m a freshman, so the thick and thin envelopes that have become so iconic in the college admissions mythos are still familiar to me. I remember, too, the incredible power I felt then—power derived from having just come to terms with being disabled. I recognized my cerebral palsy as a…
Month: September 2016
A Definitive Chronology of the Dramat Debacle
by Eva Branson (Contributing Writer) The Yale Dramatic Association (the Dramat) faced controversy recently over their casting of Sarah Chapin ’17, a white woman, in the role of Mr. Black, traditionally played by a Black man, in their fall mainstage The Wild Party. Because this decision was met with anger, on September 16th the Dramat…
“The Price of the Ticket” brings James Baldwin to Yale conversation
by Eleanor Pritchett (Arts & Culture Editor) I had trouble finding a seat at the Whitney Humanities Center’s screening of The Price of the Ticket (1989) on Thursday, the room was so comfortably full. Yale students, professors, and New Haveners alike filled the WHC auditorium for the screening of the dynamic biographical documentary about author and…
Why Moana Isn’t My Pacific Islander Feminist Heroine
by Haylee Kushi (Staff Writer) Disney is marching out a new kind of heroine for its next princess movie – a young woman with no romantic interest, a thicker body frame, and fierce pride in her cultural heritage. In the trailer for Moana released on September 15th, Disney promises to celebrate Pacific Islander cultures. Yet despite the…
A Tribe Called Red Releases Third Album: “We Are the Halluci Nation”
by Kodi Alvord (Diné) “We are the tribe that they cannot see.” These powerful words from American Indian Movement activist John Trudell open A Tribe Called Red’s (ATCR) newest album, “We Are the Halluci Nation,” a musical manifesto of Native resistance expressed through pan-Indigenous collaboration and solidarity. The album reads as one flowing narrative of genocide,…