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,…
Category: Arts & Culture
Watching the Tide: Jook Songs’ Spring Show
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…
The Case for Reparations: Ta-Nehisi Coates Visits Yale
“Racism created race,” Coates said. His words echoed soundly in the SSS lecture hall, contributing to a wider discussion about race in America that continues to gain momentum on Yale’s campus and beyond. On Friday March 27th the Black Student Alliance at Yale, the Yale College Dean’s Office, the Office of the President, and the…
Preview: Sliver of a Full Moon
On March 31, Cherokee playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle, in collaboration with Yale Native students and faculty, will host a staged reading of Sliver of a Full Moon. The play documents the grassroots movement that led to the 2013 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which included a new provision that allows tribes to…
Rihanna, Dior, and Fashion’s Latest Trend
As a Black woman with curves – and proud of it, I might add – the world of high fashion invited me to marvel at its fabulous revelry from afar, but I was not invited to the party…until now. As of Friday, March 13th, the record-breaking pop star and longtime fashion icon Rihanna has been…