This holiday break, I had a magical, life changing experience watching Wicked in theatres. The six-hour affair, which included a beautiful two-hour and forty-minute community singalong, a twenty-minute Cannes-esque standing ovation, three hours of bawling my eyes out and dry heaving, left me wondering: what am I actively doing to hold space? 

This film is clearly a call to action.

In the spirit of my fellow revolutionary, Miss Grande… it’s time I use my platform to ask the important questions:

Wellesley purports to be a welcoming environment for students of color, yet is green also not a color?

If Wellesley is so woke, why haven’t we had a green student?

I look around campus and see plenty of Glinda representations (coquettes). It is becoming increasingly clear that Wellesley is actively hostile to those in the LCET (Lime, Chartreuse, Emerald, Teal)+ Community as last fall, a production of Shrek: the musical was rife with Green Face.

As an institution, we must do more and do better.