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Critical Connections at a Critical Time
By Justine Gonzalez-Berg The racial profiling and instances of Islamophobia that occurred in the wake of the Boston Bombings underscore the necessity for active efforts to shift the perspectives of...
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Gender Inequalities in our Immigration Laws
By Jed Tifft Coming off the heels of the government shutdown, which closed federal agencies and furloughed hundreds of thousands of workers for 16 days, many might be wondering what’s next on the...
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Racial Intentions, The Law, And Our Community
By Julian Pratt Recently, Amherst College hosted a lecture series entitled “Wrongful Convictions: When the Law Messes Up”. The event included three speakers: A. Sage Smith, former Black Panther and...
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You Can’t Just “Tack On” Intersectionality
By Quin Rich On Thursday, October 31st, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw delivered the 16th Annual Eqbal Ahmad lecture to packed audience in Hampshire College’s Robert Crown Center. Crenshaw, a critical...
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Anti-Rape Wear: Sexual Assault Turned from Political to Personal
Trigger Warning: Sexual Violence, Victim Blaming, Multiple Axes of Oppression By Quin Rich Recently an online crowd funding campaign for Anti-Rape Wear, a line of clothing “for when things go wrong,”...
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An International Muslim’s Experience of Racism at the Ben Gurion Airport
By Muki Najaer The sun has not come up yet when Jesse and I land at the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on Thursday. It is four in the morning. We know that passing airport security is the biggest...
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What Did it Mean to Choose ‘Garbology’ as Hampshire’s Common Reading?
By Alana de Hinojosa President Jonathan Lash (who from here on out we will respectfully refer to as J Lash) did me proud on the afternoon of Sept. 4, the day of the college’s convocation speech....
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Please, No More “Exotic” Latinas
By Alana de Hinojosa I was utterly disappointed when I first became aware of a series of event posters for Nosotras, Smith College’s Latin@ student group, that hypersexualized and exoticized Latinas....
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Black Women and the Arts in the 21st Century: Stories That Must Be Heard
By Emily Moran Hundreds of people fill the Mullins center, filing in through the many entrances of the UMASS stadium. It is 6:45pm, the New Africa House Ensemble is playing music and the lights are...
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MLK and the Criminalization of Political Activism
By Rachael Clifford In the same vein that national discourse reduces the blood-soaked Jim Crow south to seating discrimination and separate drinking fountains, it similarly reduces MLK’s legacy of...
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