October 2010
4 posts
Weeks 3 and 4: Climate, Intimacy, and Jeopardy
So torrential the climate for we Black Students becomes in moments when the racism bleeds through from the realm of the institutional and abstract to the personal. But so warm is the intimacy fostered by the sharing of identity and experience that even in the most trying of storms we prevail.
A picture screams with the million stories of oppression and dehumanization when taken with the lens...
Welcome Week and Week 1 (A Recap)
What an explosive start we’ve had this quarter—our collective energy remains as high as our spirits, and our motivation to carry on with such fire and intensity propels us straight into the beyond.
The turnout to the first, informational BSU meeting (Monday of Welcome Week) surpassed even our lofty expectations. To look upon so many familiar faces amid a waxing sea of...