On March 28, Professor Ayesha Jalal ’78 led a fireside chat hosted by the Wellesley Association for South Asian Cultures (WASAC), titled “Contextualizing the Conflict in Kashmir.” Jalal is a Pakistani-American...
Spoilers for "Monkey Man" ahead!
“Monkey Man,” Dev Patel’s directorial and screenwriting debut, arrived in theaters on April 5, 2024, to much fanfare, even receiving a standing ovation at its premiere...
On Feb. 23, the Wellesley Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP), announced their formation via Instagram post. Their website lists their statement in full, calling for Palestinian liberation and for the...
One month ago, on Nov. 8, a group of children, the ages of my little sisters and younger, stood in front of the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza and begged the world to fight for them. A little boy, speaking...
On Oct. 31, the Supreme Court heard arguments related to affirmative action in two cases filed against Harvard and the University of North Carolina by the organization Students for Fair Admissions. The...
On Oct. 6, Fadzayi Mahere, the national spokesperson for the lead opposition party in Zimbabwe, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), came to Wellesley College to speak at an event titled “Youth and...
In Spring 2021, Professor Liseli Fitzpatrick contacted librarians Karen Storz and Sarah Moazeni about adding a new subscription to Wellesley’s databases: the HistoryMakers Digital Archive, a collection...
On April 11, 2022, Darshana, Wellesley’s Hindu student organization, announced on Instagram that Wellesley now had a Hindu chaplain, Chaplain Rumni Saha, after three academic years without a Hindu chaplain...
Gabriela Leovan ’23, a moderator of the Wellesley FAQ Facebook group, got sick on Feb. 8 after eating dinner at Lulu Campus Center’s Bae Pao Lu Chow dining hall. After seeing multiple students post...
On Feb. 5, rapper-turned-actress Awkwafina, aka Nora Lum, posted a series of screenshots of text written in the Apple Notes app (you may see where this is going).
“There is a sociopolitical context...
On Feb. 17, the French House hosted Dr. Mame-Fatou Niang, associate professor of French and Francophone studies at Carnegie Mellon University, for the first lecture of the French House’s Spring 2022...
I am an Indian American Muslim. I am one of four Indian Muslims or Indian American Muslims (that I know of) out of the 2,466 students enrolled at Wellesley.
I came to this realization a couple weeks...
On Oct. 25, 2021, Wellesley College President Paula Johnson announced Wellesley’s official land acknowledgment.In an email she wrote, “While we celebrate this moment, we must also recognize that this...
Marvel’s newest film, “Eternals,” was released in theaters on Nov. 5 to much anticipation. The film raises the stakes for the Marvel universe significantly, but amidst all that cosmic chaos still...
Warning: Spoilers!
Editor's Note: This is the longform version of the article published in the October 27 print edition of The Wellesley News.
Ted Lasso, the show taking the world by storm with its...
CW: mentions of transphobia and homophobia
“The Closer,” Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special, was released on Oct. 5, 2021. (Full disclosure: I have not watched “The Closer,” and do not...
Ali Barthwell ’10’s displayed Twitter name used to be “Ali Thee Emmy Nominee.” But now, it’s “Ali Thee Emmy Winner.” On Sept. 19, 2021, Barthwell won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for...
On Sept. 9, 2021, Provost Andrew Shennan announced to Academic Council that the 2021-2022 academic year would be the Freedom Project’s last, due to a lack of funding and faculty support. The announcement...
On Thursday, Sept. 30 at approximately 1:45 p.m., Wellesley College experienced a power outage affecting all on-campus buildings. Due to the power outage, classes, labs and seminars after 3:40 were canceled,...
I am Indian American and Muslim. Am I Asian to you?
Honestly, I’m barely Asian to myself. I think of myself as Indian first, but when people say “Asian,” it always takes me a second to realize,...
As an Afghan American, Neha Lund ’22 was disappointed by the Wellesley administration’s silence on the situation in Afghanistan, especially after the Taliban takeover of Kabul on Aug. 15, 2021. In...
WARNING: SPOILERS FOR BLACK WIDOW
11 years after her introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Black Widow has finally gotten her solo movie. Black Widow arrived in theaters on July...
On May 12, Professor Nadya Hajj wrote an impassioned plea to Wellesley faculty, asking them to raise their voices in support of Palestine in the wake of the heightened violence by the state of Israel in...
The holy month of Ramadan began on the evening of April 12 this year. For Muslims around the world, this month is dedicated to self-reflection and spirituality. Muslims observe Ramadan by fasting, going...
This is a part of the series of articles on Deconstructing the Girlboss Trope in Women-Lead Movies. Find Part 1: “Wonder Woman 1984” and Part 2: “Promising Young Woman” here.
Natasha Romanoff,...
The long-awaited COVID-19 relief bill passed on March 10 after weeks of debate in the House and Senate. Given the economic, social and emotional strife of the pandemic, the bill offers a glimpse of hope....
For the past seven months, there have been ongoing protests opposing three agricultural reform bills announced by the Modi government that would completely reshape agricultural markets. The protesters,...
Whether you are a Marvel fan or not, you probably have heard of WandaVision, the superhero sitcom and the first canon-compliant TV series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). You may have also come...
The Class of 2024 has faced consistent challenges throughout 2020. They finished high school in lockdown, graduated during the pandemic, and began college without many of the quintessential college experiences.
In...
The week before Thanksgiving break, 52 secondary contacts of a new COVID-19 case on campus were identified and forced to observe in-room restrictions as a result of an event on the occasion of Diwali,...
On Friday, Nov. 13, Dean of Students Sheila Horton sent an email containing updates about current COVID-19 regulations at Wellesley. Changes included allowing two blockmates in a room while socially-distanced,...
For the Class of 2024 at Wellesley, this year was a wave of drastic changes and disappointments.
Many faced an unexpected end to their high school career, with remote schooling and drive-through...
On a summer night, my family and I all sat down to watch a stand-up special titled “Homecoming King” by a comedian named Hasan Minhaj. I had only vaguely heard of him before and was not sure what my...
Over the course of two weeks, around 1,500 students trickled back onto campus for the in-person fall semester. As COVID-19 cases across the US neared six million, the College implemented extreme precautions...
Among the loss of life due to the pandemic and the death of George Floyd which galvanized the country and sparked the Black Lives Matter protests, 2020 has also been a year of the loss of icons. Chadwick...
