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…
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…
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…
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,…
by Eleanor Pritchett (Arts & Culture Editor) On Wednesday, September 7, Walt Disney Studios hosted a pre-screening of the new movie Queen of Katwe at Yale University and several other universities across the country. Professor Tavia Nyong’o (Theater Studies and American Studies) introduced the movie to the packed theater at Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas on…