Her hair doesn’t have to be your cup of tea, but the way you speak about it matters. On Dec. 19th, Nara Smith posted a…
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On Nov. 6, 2025, I gathered with many students at Davis Ballroom for the joint presentation hosted by the Black Students’ Alliance (BSA) and the…
The first thing I notice about content generated by artificial intelligence is that it’s too perfect: too glossy, too smooth, too uncanny. Once I see…
Dear Smith and the Smith community, To begin a number of large, high-profile events at Smith College and other nominally progressive institutions across the United…
In many ways, browsing the front page of LinkedIn is both a blast from the past and a glimpse into the ever-expanding frontier of AI:…
I often feel uneasy on this tiny campus — whether it is walking through a crowded dining hall, struggling with small talk, or generally existing…
Leaving home is never easy. It’s a concept I’m no stranger to after years of boarding school. Coming to Smith, still only a state away…
On April 7, Lynn Paltrow, attorney and founder of National Advocates for Pregnant Women — now called Pregnancy Justice — delivered a talk at Smith College titled, “Who Counts as a Person?: Women, Wombs, and Executive Disorders.” The talk, hosted by the Smith Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality department, focused on the legal and political framing of abortion, pregnancy and personhood in the United States.
You are the reason we are here. You are the reason we stay. All of you — The trans students; DACA students; the first gens. The cis students; the US citizens; the international students; the third-generation Smithies
This article was originally published in the October 2024 print edition. What does true diversity look like in an era of systemic inequality? At a recent Smith College training conference, I encountered a reminder of the work that still lies ahead. The conference focused on refining our leadership skills, but what struck me as most compelling was the presentation of a “power wheel” that ranked marginalized identities based on their proximity to power. This graphic illustrated a profoundly outdated and two-dimensional understanding of diversity, reducing complex experiences to a hierarchy defined by race, class, sexuality and more.