Beyond the URL: The World of Meishi Smile
What does it mean to be an Asian American artist in the international independent music scene? In this special interview by R Le, Meishi…
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Biologists Need To Learn How To Talk About Race
Does race have any business in biology? The scientific community has struggled with this question for some centuries, and a recent letter to the…
Read More‘Dear White People’, Revisited
On Thursday morning, I woke up to the media detailing the ways in which the second autopsy report corroborated all of Officer Darren Wilson’s,…
Read MoreGrief as Love & Memoir: Healing as a Multiracial Women of Color through Remembrance of the Deaths of Women in My Family
Originally Published on This Bridge Called Our Health. Reposted with Permission. This Bridge Called Our Health is a trans-inclusive, intersectional, sex-positive health and healing…
Read More“Exotic”: An Interview With Imrul Islam
Soraya Perry sits down with Vassar student and photographer, Imrul Islam for an interview on his new photo series, “Exotic.” How long have you…
Read MoreStraining the Limitations of Meritocracy: A Meditation on Busyness
I am busy. There are eight events on my calendar today—I’m booked from 9:00 this morning to 10:30 tonight. Students at Vassar are busy….
Read MoreVassar College Security: Over-Policing the Politics of People of Color and Getting Paid to Do It
In light of the racial profiling incident involving three young boys from Poughkeepsie last semester, we as students are being fed bullshit about reparative…
Read MoreIf Mike Brown was Michelle Brown: Engendering the Fight for Racial Justice
A vision of racial justice that is genuine and viable . . . has to do this across gender and across race. -Luke Harris,…
Read MoreConsuming Ebola: Media, Myth, and Madness
There is an enduring and guttural fear surrounding the Ebola virus: its symptoms are gruesome, its onset is sudden and there is no known…
Read MoreFloated Along in Flood Wall Street: A Vassar Student’s Observations
The ideology of Flood Wall Street was valiant, and it was sound. It was touted by its organizers not as an isolated event, or…
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