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Essays
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The Shape of Ménage à Trois to Come
“However much desire there is for the threesome to maintain its stability, the cultural force of homogenous marriage is strong.”
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Cheap Speech
By the time the tear gas came we were ready for it. The police had already been gathering for hours along the university’s serpentine walls, forming ranks and donning battle gear.
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How campus protests exposed the flaws in higher education diversity initiatives
Universities across the US pay lip service to diversity, equity and inclusion, while suppressing calls for Palestinian liberation.
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What Is a “Student” Politics?
To risk enfranchisement, suffer its penalties, apologetically—on behalf of a political sympathy with others—is revolutionary. This is the kind of action to which humanist knowledge must be bound.
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Leaving a Mark
I found myself constantly asking other participants their thoughts and reflections, to the point where I simply decided to sit down and record these conversations as a sort of informal oral history project.
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Being Columbia
This article was born as critique, but has grown into an elaboration of emotion, reflection, and reaction.
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Reckoning With Our Collective Failure
We were collectively failing in our mission to help students become informed, engaged citizens.
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Liberation, Education
In April 2024, Sofia Rivera captured stark close-ups of scenes from the Columbia University campus, from barricaded buildings to clipped versions of the campus’s famous statues, obscured in favor of the images of protest surrounding them.
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The Fire This Time
I come to you with the same tears of rage, the same feelings of intense internal pain, and the same traumas that you all carry daily.
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Lyrics of the Student Intifada
There is an elegy that echoes from the universities of Gaza to the universities of the world.
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Like Trees By Water
lock-armed and mealy mouthed atop us / the blockade begins to sing / and cross-legged / fetal below / we join
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We Keep Us Safe
At every step, the strength found in solidarity was instrumental in sustaining the movement.
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A Tale of Two Graduations
In their different ways, the People’s Graduations restored my belief in the university—not as an imprimatur of excellence or a factory of social mobility, but as a community of scholars devoted to freedom and truth.
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From Palestine to NYC: Globalizing the Intifada
On the central platform’s mast, a fluttering Palestinian flag challenges the legitimacy of the official American one positioned a few meters above.
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Because Grief Is Collective, Healing Is Too
I watched news incessantly, like it was going to save me. I stopped sleeping at night.
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When the Singing Turned to Screams
The city had to wash the blood of students off the ground, and both it and Emerson are pretending nothing happened.
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On Being Disruptive
To say that the protests were not disruptive helps us look for the real reasons as to why the police were called. There are many.
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The Campus Transformed: A Protest Archive
There is no better time to revisit the accounts and reflections from the spring uprisings, in the words of participants and onlookers themselves.
