Saturday, March 06, 2004
Jeffrey Boyd on one YaleCorp Alumni Trustee nominee:
"Given the choice between two venture capitalists and a judge actively trying to promote civil rights - it does seem like an easy choice," said Jeffrey Boyd, a graduate student from California, who is gay. "I hope the alumni of Yale will send a very clear message through this election that equality for all queer people is a value at Yale."
And Jeffrey Boyd bludgeoning Evan Cobb with a baguette from yesterday's Yale Daily News.
An interesting critique of the racialized discourse of the push for gay marriage. I'm not entirely in agreement with Farrow, and find aspects of his argument problematic, but the question of how the white leadership of the push for queer marriage is articulating a racialized discourse of white middle class queerness to justify same-sex marriage and thus erasing and marginalizing queer and transgender people of color and the struggles of people in these communities is salient and deeply troubling.
The retirees rallied on Beinecke yesterday. Yale's paternalistic discourse of "we know what is best for you" seems little diminished by the strike victory. Pepper thinks he can tell people who have worked here twenty five , thirty, forty times as long as he has what is "a good start" for them, and this is insulting and demonstrative of the university's arrogance and elitism. During the strike, Rogan, Lucille Dickess, and the other retirees told Yale in very clear terms that it was not living up to the promise of providing good jobs and supporting people who had dedicated their lives to the university by making sure they had livable pensions upon retirement. Pepper's use of layoff scare tactics with Local 34 and his failure to negotiate equitable pension adjustments with people whose toil has made possible the university's rapid expansion over the past six decades demonstrates the university's continuing efforts to crush the voices of working people on this campus and in this city.
We will not be silenced.
Smash Yale-[ comments.]
"Given the choice between two venture capitalists and a judge actively trying to promote civil rights - it does seem like an easy choice," said Jeffrey Boyd, a graduate student from California, who is gay. "I hope the alumni of Yale will send a very clear message through this election that equality for all queer people is a value at Yale."
And Jeffrey Boyd bludgeoning Evan Cobb with a baguette from yesterday's Yale Daily News.
An interesting critique of the racialized discourse of the push for gay marriage. I'm not entirely in agreement with Farrow, and find aspects of his argument problematic, but the question of how the white leadership of the push for queer marriage is articulating a racialized discourse of white middle class queerness to justify same-sex marriage and thus erasing and marginalizing queer and transgender people of color and the struggles of people in these communities is salient and deeply troubling.
The retirees rallied on Beinecke yesterday. Yale's paternalistic discourse of "we know what is best for you" seems little diminished by the strike victory. Pepper thinks he can tell people who have worked here twenty five , thirty, forty times as long as he has what is "a good start" for them, and this is insulting and demonstrative of the university's arrogance and elitism. During the strike, Rogan, Lucille Dickess, and the other retirees told Yale in very clear terms that it was not living up to the promise of providing good jobs and supporting people who had dedicated their lives to the university by making sure they had livable pensions upon retirement. Pepper's use of layoff scare tactics with Local 34 and his failure to negotiate equitable pension adjustments with people whose toil has made possible the university's rapid expansion over the past six decades demonstrates the university's continuing efforts to crush the voices of working people on this campus and in this city.
We will not be silenced.
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