by Agnes Enkhtamir We linked eyes across a crowd of gyrating teens and music so loud your bones vibrated. I didn’t want to meet the love of my life at a mediocre house party in a suburb of Las Vegas, but his eyes made the dusty, dreamy scene stumble into focus. It was like a fairytale….
by Ashia Ajani At the introduction of a Jook Songs meeting in Swing Space, everyone checks in by passing around an object – sometimes a watermelon – saying their name, their pronouns, and an honest recollection of how they’ve been doing. One member confides, “it feels really good to be in this space.” Jook Songs…
by Haylee Kushi On Tuesday, March 1st at 6:30pm, a Native Hawaiian and Black actor named Moses Goods will perform his one-man-show, Duke, at the Calhoun Cabaret. Moses Goods worked as a cultural educator at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop museum and practices both Hawaiian hula and storytelling. He studies and performs a range of performance arts,…
by Sebastian Medina-Tayac, Camila Guiza-Chavez, Oscar Garcia-Ruiz, and Laura Plata Rain slid down Alicia Camacho’s face as a police officer started to cuff her red-gloved hands Tuesday afternoon. Camacho, the associate master of Ezra Stiles College and a professor of Ethnicity, Race and Migration, wore the gloves to dramatize the message of the banner she…
by Holly Chung The Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) is used to opposition from Yale’s top administrators, who don’t want to negotiate with yet another labor union. But recent public criticism among its own constituents has catapulted GESO into the spotlight in an unprecedented way. An “Open Letter to GESO Leadership” expresses profound concerns…