By Claire Sheen “I want everyone to close their eyes. Imagine you only have one minute left to live. Who is beside you?” “I’ve only done this once before,” was Emi Mahmoud’s simple preface to this request. Thoughts and faces of loved ones flickered through the minds of the crowd surrounding the Women’s Table on…
By Treston Codrington When the organizers of Yale’s Religion and Film Series selected “Religion and Social Change” as this year’s theme last spring, co-organizer Dr. Briallen Hopper says, “we couldn’t have foreseen the way these movements for social change would come to Yale.” In fact, the series screened the documentary A Time for Burning the…
by Isadora Milanez originally published in Broad Recognition On March 7, 2016, Students Unite Now launched a website demanding the elimination of the student income contribution at Yale. The website contains the efforts of over two months of conversations about financial aid in which students whose situations ranged from full financial aid to no aid at…
by Agnes Enkhtamir We linked eyes across a crowd of gyrating teens and music so loud your bones vibrated. I didn’t want to meet the love of my life at a mediocre house party in a suburb of Las Vegas, but his eyes made the dusty, dreamy scene stumble into focus. It was like a fairytale….
by Ashia Ajani At the introduction of a Jook Songs meeting in Swing Space, everyone checks in by passing around an object – sometimes a watermelon – saying their name, their pronouns, and an honest recollection of how they’ve been doing. One member confides, “it feels really good to be in this space.” Jook Songs…