by Emily Almendarez Last Thursday night, the New Haven Green reasserted itself as a home for displaced individuals facing rough times in their lives. With its bald patches of grass, the New Haven Green stood in stark contrast to Yale’s lavish buildings just across the street. Led by their desire to defy the hegemonic ideologies…
Reflections on Angel Island
by Gregory Ng I love Asian America. It is where I learned that I could belong in America after coming from Singapore. It is where I learned about the resilience of immigrants and the children of immigrants, making their way in a country that did not want them. It is where I can look at…
Perfect Union
by Alina Yaman I feel heavy these days. I feel paralyzed. Half a centimeter beneath the surface – that’s where I lie. The me of feeling, the me of soul, the me of action – I sit, half a centimeter beneath the surface. I swell with heavy and tragic and despair, I swell with love…
On Fear: Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Anonymous Contribution This day happened before it even began: years of oppression, years of insults to women, people of color, to the LGBTQ+ community, to the disabled. All that hate. Materialized. Just like that. The morning after the election, I wore all black because I couldn’t think of anything better to wear. I passed by…
The Overuse of the Interlude is Here
by Ashia Ajani On November 4th, Alicia Keys released her new album Here, which combines narrative and song to create a somewhat new sound that hearkens back to old school Alicia Keys with the early 2000s cornrows when she knew the limitations of her vocal range. Since this has been the year of Black women…