The lights went off, the audience went quiet and The Perch stage opened to the fantastical scene of Qui Nguyen’s “She Kills Monsters.”
Stage Flight’s March 20 and March 21 production of Nguyen’s...
When Amber Abbas, Ph.D., was in graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin teaching a course on South Asian migration to the U.S., she designed a lesson plan about recording oral histories of...
When Beulah Mae Mitchell, one of Mattel’s first Black employees, was growing up, she was unable to find dolls that looked like her. After decades of work, Mitchell, alongside other Black women at Mattel,...
As a mixed race woman of Korean descent, I’ve often felt like I’ve been viewed as different in my predominantly white hometown of York, Pennsylvania.
I rarely saw Korean culture, let alone Asian...
I walked into Wolfington Hall one afternoon just before Thanksgiving break last semester and found Nancy Horowitz-Patton, Campus Ministry administrative assistant, sitting at the front desk.
“I’m...
Amber Abbas, Ph.D., associate professor of history, presented “Mistaken for ‘Muslim:’ Identity and Belonging in South Asian America,” a lecture exploring the identity and background of South Asians...
For years, I had always wanted to research my family history. I had seen advertisements from companies like Ancestry and 23 and Me, which featured people from all walks of life proclaiming the success...
A narrative on race from a Dominican student
The term Afro-Latinx, a more recent adaptation of the phrase Latino for anyone who chooses to remove gender binaries from their identity, is used to describe...
A narrative from a Caribbean-American student
Being born in Miami, Florida and living my first few years in Haiti, I’ve always had a strong sense of my roots while also assimilating to a land that I...
The f-word is feminism, at least it is in Radiant Bloom Productions’, “The F-word,” a show that celebrates the diversity of women and the many conflicting beliefs about feminism.
The Women’s Leadership...
The importance of owning your identity
Members of the St. Joe’s community do not have the option to update their preferred names on their student IDs due to the set up of the current system, nor are...
Renewing the conversation after Sam Smith’s pronoun announcement
Last week, English musician Sam Smith announced that they prefer the pronouns they/them, six months after coming out as nonbinary. Smith’s...
