by Haylee Kushi (Staff Writer) The Yale Peabody Museum is celebrating its 150th anniversary with the installment of the exhibition: “Identity, Difference, and Understanding: Lessons from Oceania and Southeast Asia” at the PEABODY2, a one-room museum on the corner of York and Elm, a space offered to the Peabody Museum by Yale’s Office of New…
Indigenous Beats: Standing Rock, Solidarity, and Brownface
by Katie McCleary (Staff Columnist) Standing Rock Update Last Sunday, on September 25, water protectors planted trees along the proposed path of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The stark difference between planting a tree and digging a pipeline makes this event so beautiful. They show us that the movement is not only to protect our existing…
RITM Discusses Intersectionality, Politics
by Janis Jin (Contributing Writer) The Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program and Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration co-sponsored a panel discussion on Wednesday, September 21, called “Election 2016: An Intersectional Discussion with Yale Faculty.” Moderated by WGSS Professor Inderpal Grewal, the event featured five different Yale professors across…
Disabled and Disenfranchised
by Sohum Pal (Contributing Writer) I’m a freshman, so the thick and thin envelopes that have become so iconic in the college admissions mythos are still familiar to me. I remember, too, the incredible power I felt then—power derived from having just come to terms with being disabled. I recognized my cerebral palsy as a…
A Definitive Chronology of the Dramat Debacle
by Eva Branson (Contributing Writer) The Yale Dramatic Association (the Dramat) faced controversy recently over their casting of Sarah Chapin ’17, a white woman, in the role of Mr. Black, traditionally played by a Black man, in their fall mainstage The Wild Party. Because this decision was met with anger, on September 16th the Dramat…