The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/activism/)
Climate Justice Cornell, Cornell on Fire and Native American Indigenous and Indigenous Students at Cornell gathered on the Arts Quad for a demonstrative art build and protest to support clean energy and the repatriation of mineral rights on sacred native land in Wisconsin.
Undergraduates voted “yes” on the ceasefire and divestment referendum questions by a 2:1 ratio.
In an International Women’s Day talk, Indigenous scholar and activist Michelle Schenandoah ’99 unpacked the historical disempowerment of Indigenous women, including in Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s ’54 legal decisions.
CFI said that the sexual violence demonstration was canceled before criticism from the Coalition for Mutual Liberation was publicized.
Kimberlé Crenshaw ’81 underscored the importance of freedom of expression and combatting injustice in the 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture.
Grey’s Anatomy actor and activist Jesse Williams spoke to the Cornell student body about his professional and personal experiences on Feb. 9.
L.M. Nawrocki ’23 was awarded the Student Leader Award on Saturday, June 17 for cultivating safe spaces for LGBTQ+ Cornell students.
On Saturday, Feb. 11, Cornell students rallied in Washington, D.C. with politicians, community leaders and students from other universities to reiterate the demands of the Uyghur Policy Act and Uyghur Human Rights Protection Act in response to the genocide in China.
Their stand reflects an important statement of solidarity amongst those who value human rights. The rally had support from The Hong Kong Student Association, Cornell Chinese in Ithaca, Free Tibet, Free Uyghur Now, Athenai Institute, Uyghur Human Rights Association, the Uyghur American Association and others.
I spoke with Suha Khan ’24, a Cornell Interfaith Council leader who drummed up support for the rally. Zoë MeiLing Johnson-Berman ’24, who fostered solidarity amongst organizations through social media networking, also joined us for the conversation. This interview is lightly edited for clarity.
Following the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, the Turkish Student Association students set up a table in Klarman Hall to inform passersby of the incident and collect donations on behalf of the victims. As of Tuesday morning, the death toll in Turkey has risen to almost 36,000, with many injured and still trapped under the rubble. Combined with Syria, the death toll has reached more than 41,000. And yet, Cornell students walked on, disinterested. Friends of Turkish students waved and continued on their merry way. But of course, the Instagram posts detailing the catastrophe and calling for donations received empathetic messages and sincere concerns.
As the clock hit 5 p.m., a business fraternity set up a banner next to the TSA table.
In honesty, while I will be the first to say that Womansplaining is (definitely!) my favorite part of being a Cornell student, it doesn’t actually take me a lot to write my columns. I write most of them in an hour or two the Friday before they’re due to my editor. I prioritize my own experiences and thoughts (key my apt title: Womanplaining) and most of those experiences happened the week that I write: e.g. this week I went to a talk and now I’m writing about my thoughts from that talk, the week of the 2020 election I wrote about the election, when I ran for Student Assembly I wrote about Student Assembly. Obviously my opinion writing is different from writing my thesis or a class paper, but a lot of times they come from the same space. And the crux of the question is whether or not a writing about feminism is feminist activism.