Party Culture This past year, I served on the Wesleyan Student Budget Committee (SBC). On the SBC, we allocate money to fund student activities such as concerts, talks, and other events on campus. At Wesleyan, we have an enrollment of 3,000+ students, who each pay $300 a year in student activity fees, which puts the […]
It was so much darker than hers. It wrapped its creeping, seeping arms around my limbs, around my body. It poured into me, like malt liquor. Unlike soft, unlike white cream, like hers. It crept into me and formed my tongue, my unruly wild hair. My wide nostrils and thick skin. It formed the tissues […]
Professor, does only one person of color get to talk per class? I’ve been searching for the answer in the syllabus but only see the readings. Is it, like, a quota? A quota for the white people here, that is? Is there a limit to how many “race issues” they can handle per day? Is […]
my hair weighs heavy in it I hold love, a tale told through the coconut oil my grandmother tended it with in it I carry her pride de ser Taína dense are the curls that spring in response to the question “what’s up with your hair?” they answer: it is wild but not in the […]
About 2,600 years ago, a man named Cyrus was born in a foreign land now known as Iran. He was the grandson of Aystages, overlord of the Persians. When Cyrus was born, Aystages had a dream that his grandson would overthrow him, so Cyrus was given to a shepherd to be raised as a peasant; a stranger in […]
To provide context, Event Staff are the students who are usually at the door at campus events asking for IDs, managing event capacity, and ensuring people’s safety. Part of what we do is check that no one is severely intoxicated in the restroom or throwing up on the dance floor. Furthermore, the staff has usually been predominantly […]
“Women and the Wall/The End” is the fourth and final installment in a long-form essay written in response to the election by Devonaire Ortiz. See the first three here: Never, History is a Weapon: The Vote, and History is a Weapon: Slavery Reincarnate/Familiarity. Women and the Wall More than simply building a wall along the border between the […]
“History is a Weapon: Slavery Reincarnate/Familiarity” is the third installment in a long-form essay written in response to the election by Devonaire Ortiz. See the second installment: History is a Weapon: The Vote. Slavery Reincarnate The president-elect campaigned on state-sanctioned bigotry and violence. Among other places, we see this in his calls for “law and order” in […]
“History is a Weapon: The Vote” is the second installment in a long-form essay written in response to the election by Devonaire Ortiz. See the introduction: Never: (For I Can Write about Nothing Else). “I think that the saddest part of it all is, I don’t know which part of me they’ll kill first: the Muslim, the […]
Regarding the General Election on November 8th, 2016. On Wednesday morning, I could not write normal-like. At the time, Hillary Clinton led the president-elect by 226,000 popular votes, or just 0.2 percent of those counted; such a small margin it was between all right and the alt-right. By then, she had already lost the electoral […]