A Letter from the Board: Standing In Solidarity and Speaking Up
BY BROAD RECOGNITION
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
Over the course of the past week, our campus has been witness to a series of events that have made many feel unsafe, unheard, and disheartened. This past weekend, the Associate-Head of …
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Missy E n’ Me: How to Be Supa Dupa
BY KATHY AMILIATEGUI
OCTOBER 13, 2015
Thursday night, 10pm. Am I reading the works of John Stuart Mill and what he has to say about the subjection of women? No reader, I am not. I’m dancing around my common room to Missy …
Ackee & Saltfish: Shifting the Lens to Unfiltered Black Female Friendship
BY CASSANDRA DA COSTA
APRIL 9, 2015
As someone who writes and observes, watches a lot of film and television, and actively thinks about comedy as a medium, I have been wondering how we might arrive at a cultural moment where black …
Asking More of What We Love: A Dialogue About Broad City Season 2
BY CASSANDRA DA COSTA AND S.J. BAXTER
MARCH 31, 2015
Cassandra DaCosta: We are about to watch the finale and then moonwalk back in time to earlier episodes and clips and then we’re gonna talk about them, and …
The Politics of Pasties: Not Your Grandmother’s Burlesque
BY FIONA LOWENSTEIN
MARCH 25, 2015
“Are you guys ready to see some boobs?”
The crowd erupts in cheers. We’re only a few blocks away from Yale’s campus, but it’s starting to feel like a …
Legally Black
By Alexa Derman
February 15, 2015
Zina Ellis loves musical theatre: the spectacle, the singing, the glitter—she nods to her spectacularly bedazzled heels. But sometimes, she says, it feels as though musical theatre doesn’t love her back. It takes only a few …
Why Ferguson is a Feminist Fight
BY EMMA GOLDBERG
JANUARY 17, 2015
We often romanticize historical periods like the 1960s, but right now we’ve found ourselves in a future textbook paragraph. If you’ve ever wondered what you might have done had you been alive during the Civil Rights …
Will the real White Ribbon please stand up?
By Charlotte Lawrence
November 10, 2014
What could be better than a Texas-based men’s rights group that posts articles like “Rape Prevention For Women,” “53% rape cases filed between April 2013 and July 2013 false ” and “So, …
No Shave November? No Shave Whenever!
BY LAURA GOETZ
NOVEMBER 1, 2014
Happy November 1st! You know what that means – a month of glorious orange and red leaves, crisp air, pumpkin pie, and the option of parting ways with your razor for 30 whole days. That’s …