(Audience: Readers in the Pioneer Valley, perhaps The Daily Hampshire Gazette.) In a mere three months, the racism and xenophobia brought on by the COVID-19…
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A philosopher’s answer to a double question: What are identities and why do they matter? “What are you?” Whether in my home town of…
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Recently, I’ve started opening conversations by asking, “What do you know about Tara Reade?” So far, the answer is “Not much,” over and over. As…
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On a November evening in 2017, a woman named Yang Song fell to her death from a fourth-floor balcony in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens,…
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Have you ever noticed that the beloved pond that dots Smith College brochures sometimes sits empty? It might’ve been easy to miss if you weren’t…
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A Response to the “Labels are for Soup Cans Not People” Mentality The worst bulletin board I’ve ever had the displeasure of seeing in…
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Should Smith build local organic gardens on campus to promote small, sustainable farming? Should we build a squirrel lookout point? Is there a tree on…
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On the evening of November 8, 2016, a group of friends and I gathered in front of the TV in our house’s living room to…
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What should I do about my sexist supervisor? I work in an all-male research team headed up by a brilliant scientist, well-liked by most people…
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What if justice was viewed not as a matter of treating women equal to men or Blackness as equal to whiteness, but treating Black women…
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