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Tag: Oppression
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Resistance Strategies for Black Graduate Students in Higher Education
Being a Black woman at a predominantly White institution (PWI), I experience simultaneously racialized and gendered encounters that leave me feeling anxious and incensed. The social justice spaces that I found in graduate school help me to navigate challenging experiences and to speak truth to power. I share this brief composition as a testament to the strategies of resistance that my peers, colleagues, faculty and I use to persist in higher education.
April 4, 2019
News Roundup
GWU Student Prompts Discussion About Changing Colonials Nickname
Having the Colonials as George Washington University’s team name may inhibit students from having “inclusive” school spirit because the moniker could be associated with ethnophobia and oppression,  said Hayley Margolis, a Student Association senator. Margolis said she wants to push the discussion about the Colonials nickname past a “casual conversation” and inform officials and students […]
February 15, 2019
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