Kanye’s music reminds me of weekends riding along Lake Shore Drive and sticky days at park district summer camp and recesses spent playing pickup basketball. It reminds me of family cookouts and wandering down Michigan Avenue and hood fireworks that…
On a Tuesday evening in early September 2021, Karen Dubois-Walton ’89 got a text from her friend Sarah Miller ’03. Someone had been shot in their Fair Haven neighborhood in a parking lot just down the street from DuBois-Walton’s home….
The sign looked as though someone had taken the sides of several steel shipping containers, painted them with the brightest hue of red known to man, and hoisted them on the walls of an old factory building. “Village DISCOUNT OUTLET” was plastered in white across the building’s steel paneling, each letter appearing as if it had been stolen from a different restaurant sign.
Whatever we do, we cannot continue our toxic relationship with labor, where work and identity coalesce into one grisly concept that reduces our humanity to a job title, a number of hours worked, and a salary.
It’s no secret that American society has a rigid gender binary, one that valorizes masculinity and looks down upon femininity, one that rewards those who fit neatly into that binary and terrorizes those who don’t adhere to it, and one that reinforces the existing social, political, and economic power structures.
Our education system has, in effect, reinforced America’s existing aristocracy.
