During Thanksgiving week, stickers bearing the image of Adolf Hitler were placed on the Asbell Center for Jewish Life sign. These stickers, as well as stickers bearing heinous white supremacist slogans were also attached to a poster for the “Horace Pippin: Racism & War” exhibit. These two incidents are clearly connected, unfortunately drawing on a…
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Women’s and Gender Resource Center is sponsoring Dickinson College’s first Gender Week. Each event offers different ways to engage with the topic of gender in some way. Our goal is to engage the College community in dialogue and conversation about the intersection of gender with other identities, to…
As Halloween draws near and students begin to select their costumes, it is important to remember that identities should not be treated as costumes. If a Halloween costume is trying to imitate another person’s identity or mock that identity, chances are it’s probably offensive. Some examples of this are more common than others, such as…