On Thursday, March 4th, 2021, the Asian American Cultural Center (AACC) at Yale launched Pan Asian American Heritage Month (PAAHM) with keynote speaker, Alice Wong, a disabled activist, consultant, and media maker. She is the founder of Disability Visibility Project (DVP), an online platform dedicated to creating and engaging with disability media and culture by…
Put Respect Into Recruitment
What is it like to be a Black varsity student-athlete at Yale? Exhausting. For any student-athlete, maneuvering through a schedule overflowing with events, practices, classes, and other extracurriculars is no easy feat. A student-athlete must constantly sacrifice their own desires and precious personal time to keep up with the day-to-day demands of being on a…
How Public Schools Teach Black History
In February 2020, West Woods School, an elementary school in Hamden Connecticut, cast two Black students as enslaved Africans for a school play. The play intended to teach students about the slave trade. The teacher in charge of this class assignment apologized to the students’ parents, and school officials released a statement about this incident….
Great Value Punk
It was hard growing up punk on a budget. Punk then emo because my middle school pubescent rage turned into awkward angst once I started high school. It’s a strange sentiment because ideally, being part of the punk subculture was never supposed to be something one could or couldn’t afford. After emigrating to the states,…
Your Hair is not 4C if…
Your Hair is not 4C if you can cleanly run your hands through your hair Your Hair is not 4C if people don’t try to create a different hair category for you like “4z hair”. Your Hair is not 4C if you haven’t cried at a failed hairstyle attempt Your Hair is not 4C if…