by Katie McCleary Where I grew up on the Crow Reservation in Montana our closest neighbors are the Northern Cheyenne. As is common for many neighbors, especially those competing for resources, Crows and Northern Cheyenne were enemies. The U.S. Government assumed this was a minor issue when they forced the communities into reservations next to…
Category: Voices
Not Your Ratchet
Each time that I hear a Yale student use the word “ratchet,” I die a little on the inside. They’re appropriating a word that has a specific and serious cultural context in Louisiana, where I’m from. The first time most Louisiana natives hear the word ratchet is not in a frat house, but in their…
Feminism Out of Context: I’m Still Waiting for the 4th Wave
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…
Selected Poems from Other & Unruly
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…
Ask Audre #1: An Advice Column
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…