by Alexis Payne The Sapphire. The Mammy. The Jezebel. The Sapphire. The Mammy. The Jezebel….The media, like a broken record, plays this same, sad song again and again. It seems these are the only identities available for Black girls in America. In an industry dominated by white executives, white producers, and white writers, narratives that…
I saw Straight Outta Compton the day before I arrived on campus. Because of the sensationalist nature of social media, I had already been barraged with a plethora of opinions supporting and denigrating the film. Perhaps I entered the theater already biased. Nevertheless, when all was said and done, I left with conflicting emotions. I…
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…
As Hilton Als begins his master class on March 25, the classroom is hushed with expectation. Als is distinguished in the literary world for his memoirs, essays, and reviews, but as a queer black man in the literary world he often finds himself pigeonholed into discussions on race and sexuality. He sits before the classroom,…
This past weekend, Jook Songs, Yale’s Asian American writing and performance group, put on an exquisite spring show called Tide. The pieces performed at Tide went beyond the conventions of poetry and actualized narratives and conversations on stage. The works were reminiscences about the lives of the writers and how they had been shaped by…