by Ellie Pritchett On November 5, about fifty Yalies of color met with President Peter Salovey. This is an article about what happened in that room. But really, this is an article about pain; this is an article about trauma; this is an article about death. *** “You get the sense you shouldn’t be there,”…
by Eleanor Pritchett The little pink magic marker in my hand seems too light for the heaviness of the task in front of me. Draw a moment when you’ve felt unsafe. Suddenly I can’t think. This room in the New Haven Public Library full of young queer and trans* New Haveners is such a safe…
On the evening of Saturday, September 19th, the Yale Film Society (YFS) and the Religion and Social Change Film Series hosted a screening of Spike Lee’s masterpiece biopic Malcolm X at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC). The beautiful WHC auditorium, paired with the grainy 35mm film, created a powerful atmosphere in which the depiction of…