Contestations of feminism, academic censorship, and Barnard’s shifting relations to its research center By Sayuri Govender Illustration by Iris Pope “I have to talk about passion in the future... Will our political theories hold a place for women like me in the future? Maybe I’ll be an odd piece of history/old dinosaur bones that women in the future find fascinating and bizarre.” – Amber Hollibaugh, Diary of a Conference on Sexuality, 1982 In February, the Barnard Center for

On small moments of love that lie solely within a New York City park. By Sayuri Govender Illustration by Jacqueline Subkhanberdina In each of the parks around campus are pockets of us—people-watching with our neighbors, sharing inside jokes, and breathing out with the trees. I have dozens of different trail loops memorized, and I know exactly which one I need when. For a long, contemplative moment, I’ll walk down to the bend near 99th where Riverside Park meets the Hudson R

How post 9/11 immigration policy made way for today’s surveilling of international student s. By Sayuri Govender Illustration by Em Bennet Detentions of students for political dissent, the GOP’s encroachment into our classrooms, and an increase in ICE checkpoints around the city have created a fog of fear and suppression within and around our shut gates. The past few semesters at Columbia have been marked by pervasive government intervention that has censored and attacked o