We pledge to cease our donations and other forms of in-kind support to the University until Duke ends its obstruction of graduate student workers’ right to unionize and collectively bargain.
In the main field of Duke Gardens, where the gargantuan stick sculpture used to make its home, there’s a grassy slope under the shade of a magnolia tree.
We don’t need business-as-usual Duke—we need more flexibility, more grace, more reminders that our academic productivity isn’t more important than our ability to survive.
John Bolton does not deserve this platform. We have no business legitimizing the blood on Bolton’s hands—and his mustache.
The entire social impact industry functions largely as a thin moral cover for an unjust economic system.
Often minimized, if not lost, in this conversation is the moral argument for educational justice—incarcerated people are, like the rest of us, entitled to free public education.
We know ourselves by knowing where we came from.
Duke does not love us. Perhaps it’s time we reciprocate.
Given the violent contestations over land and economic power endemic to the post-Civil War United States, Hamer’s efforts were nothing short of radical.
Every day we sanitize our institution’s history we compound the consequences that will surely become its legacy.
