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GUEST ROOM | The Limits of Dialogue

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For pissed off students who have considered transferring/when dialogue isn’t enuff
Last week, our campus had the pleasure of hosting three activists from the Black Lives Matter Network, one of the many organizations and groups engaged in the Black Lives Matter movement. I left feeling inspired to imagine more radical possibilities for our world and particularly for our campus community. As someone who collaborated with many students in the fall to deliver a working list of demands to the university president and as someone who was moved by the actions of students all over the country, I had to reflect deeply on my own activism. Are we demanding the right things? Are we using the right strategies?