“BU is not designed for us, and this BU does not belong to us just as our bodies and our minds do not and have not belonged to us since our rights as human beings were stripped away in the wake of slavery.”
DEESCALATING THE HARVARD CRIMSON BOYCOTT
Alternatives for feuding student immigrant advocates and journalists As someone who has been both a journalist and a left-wing political activist for a long time, I suppose it’s inevitable that I would feel the need to weigh in on a debate currently raging between Harvard immigrant advocates and the independent Harvard student […]
MEET MEAGHAN COLLINS: ON ‘GROWING OUT MY BANGS,’ BOSTON SINGER CHANGES MORE THAN JUST HER HAIRCUT
“Women are naturally competitive with each other,” she says, “and I think it takes another level to step out of that comfort zone and not guard ourselves from each other. But I love seeing other women perform. It’s cool to share this man’s world with each other.”
PROPOSED STATE JOURNALISM COMMISSION NEEDS BROADER MEMBERSHIP
More working journalists, less elite institutes Chris Faraone,* John Loftus,** and I spend a lot of time thinking about how to rebuild American journalism. Pretty much from the ground up, since so many news outlets and jobs in the field have been destroyed in the last quarter century. And a growing number of […]
UNIVERSITIES MUST SEVER TIES WITH SAUDIS AND UAE
March 26 will mark the fourth year of the genocidal war against the people of Yemen led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In addition to blockading the country and preventing basic necessities from entering, the Saudi-led coalition targets food and water infrastructure, fishing boats, and even small farms in airstrikes, directly […]
UNCTUOUS PILOT: ARE COLLEGES IN BOSTON PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE?
Students, councilors turn up heat over broken payment promises by nonprofits
GIRLHOOD, INTERRUPTED: THE TRAGIC ECSTASY OF GIRLHOOD AT BOSTON PLAYWRIGHTS’ THEATRE
★★★☆☆ Four young girls who have all come to live in a state-run home under different circumstances grapple with the death of Amber, their friend and housemate whose suicide rocks their already unstable lives. Written by Kira Rockwell, The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood is a mixed bag of acutely drawn characters full […]
SPECIAL FEATURE: PRIDE, PREJUDICE, AND THE PATRIARCHY
Brown is retiring this year, and the university she leaves is very different from the one of her tenure suit that began more than 30 years ago. But while much has changed, Brown’s story contains a certain timelessness, particularly in the current struggle by women against institutions traditionally dominated by men. Like an Austen novel, Brown’s battle forces a reckoning with the type of sexism society tries to hide from itself. As Brown says, “Making the people who had done this have to defend themselves and be accountable, that was worth it.”
A BEAUTIFULLY ACTED LONELY PLANET AT NEW REP
★★★★☆ New Repertory Theatre continues its compelling Statements of Survival series with a 25th anniversary production of Steven Dietz’s 1993 AIDS drama Lonely Planet, which will run through March 4 in New Rep’s intimate black box theater. Co-produced by the Boston Center for American Performance and beautifully directed by New Rep artistic […]
ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN JOURNALISM 101 WITH KLARFELD
I always describe Klarfeld as someone who tended the net in hockey before goalies wore face masks.
