The internet is ablaze with the widely circulated story of Rachel Dolezal, a woman from Spokane, WA who after years of passing herself off as black, has been revealed to be a white by her own parents. As Steven W Thrasher said in an astute article for The Guardian: “…the reason that her story is…
My freshman year, I signed up to take a freshman seminar called “Feminism, Racism, Gender, and Sexuality” because I had never thought of these four terms in conjunction with one another. By the fourth class meeting, I realized that this class was a safe space for me to speak about my own experiences as a…
Alonzo Page is a senior in Jonathan Edwards College. He wrote a collection of poems, Other & Unruly, for his senior project as an English Major in the writing concentration. Contact him at alonzo.a.page@gmail.com. By Fire I want to be a little bit irrational with you. Let you know I don’t mind being residual, what’s left…
Dear Audre, How do you deal with white people who act like they “get it,” but clearly do not? Best, It’s Hard Out Here _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hey It’s Hard Out Here, First things first, you have the right to be annoyed. So often, people of color who are friends with white folks don’t call them out…
“Ignorance is a cure for nothing” – W.E.B. Dubois For the last stop on our route, we tour guides like to end with a brief anecdote about why we chose Yale. For me, the exact words of the speech change every time, but the larger theme is the same: community. That is why I chose…