DOWN Voices Staff Because the social media accounts of Yalies of color give us life. Shoutout to all the white cis men in Race and Gender in American Literature. Facts. Check out more gems from Javier here. Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright, we’re looking at you. Some things just need to be Facebook…
by Eleanor Pritchett If the House is a home, it’s the perfect place to hold a reunion–and the message set by the Black History Month kickoff on February 6th was that the House is a home. Roots, Rebirth, and Renaissance is the theme of this year’s Black History Month at the Afro-American Cultural Center, and what…
by Alejandra Padín-Dujon On January 25th, American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (ER&M) associate professor Birgit Rasmussen posted to her Facebook wall: “Craziest shopping period ever is drawing to a close.” Rasmussen—whose impending departure from Yale College comes in the midst of an exodus of ethnic studies faculty—teaches “Race and Gender in American Lit,” the…
As members of the Coordinating Committee, the elected leadership of GESO, we write to our colleagues who drafted “An Open Letter to GESO Leadership,” published on January 25, 2016. As a leadership group made up overwhelmingly of women, people of color and LGBTQ people, we face many of the challenges outlined in your letter. We…
We—women, LGBTQ graduate students, and graduate students of color at Yale University—write to share our concerns about union organizing practices, as well as our suggestions for improvement. We write with a shared recognition of the powerful work this union has done over the last two decades to support marginalized university employees and New Haven residents….