During this election week, most – if not all – of us are experiencing feelings of restless, anxiety, and fear. We might be checking live updates of the poll results at every minute. We might be outraged at the number of people who still voted for Trump. We might be anxious about the potential threat…
Where I Come from We Eat Sitting Down
I don’t usually talk to taxi drivers. The man whose taxi I got in this morning surprised me with a conversation I would never forget. It’s not a superiority thing or anything of that nature, but growing up in an immigrant family in the US, if you couldn’t do something that you could’ve done on…
A Statement: DOWN’s Response to Chun’s Email
Nov 2, 2020 To our Yale Community, Just one day prior to the presidential election, Dean Marvin Chun and the Yale College Dean’s Office sent out an email about the Spring 2021 course schedule. The email notified us that on December 18th – the last day of finals for what will be an unequivocally challenging…
Nonhuman Characters That We All Know are Black
Yes they aren’t real, and yes they aren’t people. But we’re saying that if they were, they’d be Black. How do we know? Is it because most of these characters are voiced by Black actors? Partly. These characters aren’t Black because their voice actors are–if anything those actors only give us confirmation. There’s a reason…
On My 18th Birthday
Today I turn 18. As always, this birthday has prompted self-reflection, perhaps even more so as I sit quarantined in Saybrook College at Yale. I cannot help but wonder what life would have been like if this pandemic had never happened. It is quite likely I would have ended up at a different university. I…