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Being a hijabi, I am perceived as a representative of Muslims and Islam. Often people will scrutinize my actions to see if they align with what they believe Islam is. These statements often are said to me as a joke, …
“We believe that your perspective is crucial to our conversations. We know that your hard work, combined with a Bowdoin education, can quite literally change the world.”
Thus ends the first paragraph of my acceptance letter to Bowdoin. Now, just …
1. We stand in support of our students who acted out of principled conviction and with the aim of driving positive change at the College and beyond. The College continues to remain silent while the White House openly declares its …
As faculty and staff members at the College committed to ending the Israeli genocide, we have recently come together to form a chapter of Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP). In this capacity, we have been taking stock …
Greetings, Bowdoin Community! I’m writing to you from sunny Sabbatical Island, where I’m blissfully researching and writing to my heart’s content. I’m enjoying my time on the Island, but I confess that I feel the need to check in, if …
It’s an odd thing for a writer to come down against the idea of complexity.
Writing lives, as Adam Shatz observed, “in the verbs, not the nouns … in the distance, sometimes the chasm, between words and deeds.” Complicating a …
