Alumni of Color Forgotten By Administration
Starting in January, UC Santa Cruz adorned campus with celebratory banners of notable alumni. The alumni site deems 2018 “the year of the alumni, […] a time to savor, celebrate, and promote the legacy of proud Banana Slugs who have made their mark as they’ve...
An Artsy Post-UCSC Prospect
Critical thinking and flexibility are two important skills to have in the job market. These skills, ingrained into art majors throughout their course work at UC Santa Cruz, give a foundation for later in their careers. This time of year also brings job hunting for...
‘Our Africa’: African Student Union Seventh Annual Cultural Show
What makes Africa special?” an emcee asked a crowd of about 250 people at the African Student Union’s (ASU) seventh annual cultural show. “It’s where my mom came from.” “The diversity.” “To be from there is so rich,” audience members replied. Held on May 11...
Anakbayan Holds Space for Inclusive Approach to Housing Justice
Ten blocks were forced into one as Manilatown, San Francisco experienced a devastating loss of culture in the 1970s. When San Francisco’s push for “urban renewal” threatened a community of Pilipinx people living in the International Hotel, also known as the I-Hotel, coalitions organized together...
Kresge Pride Remembers Stonewall
A chorus of “transphobia has got to go” rose from a group of about 40 marchers as they began climbing up Merrill hill after a windy stop in Cowell. Organizers worked to make Pride more accessible this year, swapping out less accessible pickup trucks for...
How Much Work Goes into Multicultural Festival?
With the theme of “Cultivating Love & Resilience,” the 39th annual Multicultural Festival (MCF) promises to uphold its tradition of bringing together different cultures represented at UC Santa Cruz and the city of Santa Cruz. The May 19 festival will feature food, performances and spoken...
Spain and Portugal’s Jewish and Arabic Baroque Music
Spanish, Hebrew and Arabic songs rang through the Music Center Recital hall during the Santa Cruz Baroque festival on April 29. Many of the pieces came from an 800-year period from the early eighth to the late fifteenth centuries of mixed Muslim and Christian rule...
Review: Humans vs. Robots
UC Santa Cruz graduate student Abel Cornejo brought one of the first ever sci-fi plays back to life this past weekend, with a modernized questioning of life itself with artificial intelligence. Known for welcoming “robot” into the English language and sparking science fiction on the...
Amplifying Narratives of Liberation
In just two hours, three spoken word artists took an audience on a trip from Palestine to the U.S., Canada to Syria, for “Words of Resistance” on April 26. This event is the first of five in this year’s Islamic Awareness Month (IAM). IAM, hosted...
Q&A: Dr. Celiany Rivera-Velázquez shares her experiences of documenting feminist and queer music spaces
Whose bodies? Our bodies! Whose rights? Our rights!” are the first lines of the song “Mi Cuerpo es Mio” by Las Krudas Cubensi, a queer feminist Afro Cuban hip-hop group. The group starred in guest lecturer Dr. Celiany Rivera-Velázquez’s short-film featuring queer music and dance...