Yale Daily News

We are always running. We run to class, we run to work and we run to meet our friends. Running always seems to be fashionable at Yale. If your feet aren’t pounding on the pavement, then everyone thinks that you’re crouched over, wheezing and struggling to catch your breath.

April 13, 2016

Last week I met Judith Butler GRD ’84. I didn’t just “meet” her amongst the 300 or so people who showed up for the Tanner lecture series; I had the opportunity to sit down for lunch with her, along with 15 or so current Directed Studies students, to discuss Frantz Fanon’s “Concerning Violence.”

April 5, 2016

Who did that much work over Spring Break? I know I didn’t. I kept telling myself that I would, although I mostly ended up reading, planning my summer and catching up on the news.

March 30, 2016

Today is March 2. The dust has long settled since the March of Resilience in November, and the only time I now hear anyone say “we gon’ be alright” is when I put Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” on shuffle. Maybe I’m in the wrong circles, but it surely seems like the prominence of activism on campus has fizzled, and we’ve all retreated into our familiar routines. Undisrupted. Undisturbed.

March 2, 2016

Creating dialogue, setting community expectations, improving access to resources and providing a support network to survivors of sexual assault may provide us with the tools that we need to create a loving — and safe — community for all Yalies. That’s love.

February 17, 2016

The bubble has become a blanket instead of a plastic bag.

February 3, 2016

Everyone inhabits a space. We do not live in a vacuum, devoid of context, history or community. The very fact that you are reading this […]

January 20, 2016

Question: whether the frustration students of color feel is legitimate? Objection 1: Isis, you’re writing this article stylized in the same way as “Summa Theologica,” […]

December 9, 2015

Every day I open my mouth to speak. I raise my hand, the professor calls on me, I reply. I respond when my friends ask […]

November 17, 2015

Yale has always been a safe space for whiteness.

October 16, 2015

When it was announced that Meryl Streep would take home the Oscar instead, I slumped back into the couch, disappointed but unsurprised.

October 7, 2015