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Mandatory attendance policies may be well-intentioned, but they rely on the natural distrust of the student, the ableism-coded “laziness” of the individual.
Testimonies from previous and current RAs demonstrate that police bring no added value when called, and more importantly, can cause harm to students.
Zionism diminishes our years of abundant survival and persistence and strength to the idea that we cannot have a home without the ethnic cleansing of someone else’s home; that we cannot have strength without someone else having despair; that we cannot have survival without someone else having to die.
Daniel’s soul was overflowing. Everywhere he went, he spilled joy from the seams of his floral shirt.
To work with my body, I can value its ability to love and care and provide life.
As I continued to expand my political understanding and envision a more just world, I found what I had taken for granted all along: the arts.
Honestly, we’re just sick of listing campus resources when students express concerns about their mental health.
In this world, we are taught, often violently, that some bodies have more value than others.
In June, President Vincent Price published a statement about anti-racist initiatives. In December, Duke's alumni magazine published a letter to the editor that gaslighted anti-Black oppression, shamed BIPOC for their marginalization and demonstrated overt racism.
Human bodies, like roots in the soil, are interconnected: we travel together, not one soul left behind.