Bates College Offers Special Housing to ‘Womxn of Color and/or Marginalized Gender’
“sharing our intersectionality experiences”
Do you get the sense that some colleges are now competing to ‘outwoke’ each other?
Campus Reform reports:
Bates College offers housing exclusively for ‘womxn of color’
Bates College has announced a new residence hall, Empowering Young Minds (EYM), “for womxn of color and/or marginalized gender.”
The housing invitation will only be extended to “applicants who identify as womxn of color and non-binary students of color.” The creators expect participants to build community by “sharing our intersectionality experiences.”
The Bates Student reports that the idea for the housing project stems from the realization that the three girls were “almost the only Black girls in Page,” their freshman year dorm, alleging specifically that it was because of the college’s classification as a Predominately White Institution (PWI).
The university approved the house, and it will open on campus this fall.
Three freshman students, Aaliyah Moore, Aisatou Barry, and Faith Nwando, proposed the project to the college in April. The girls said it was difficult to meet people like them during their first year and hope the new residence project will allow undergraduate women of color to connect with upperclassmen.
According to the university newspaper, Moore said her loneliness was “a repeating cycle,” that can be broken in the segregated dorm.
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Right. Because new experiences, and meeting people with different experiences and perspectives is NOT one of the major experiential learning aspects of university life. #sarcasm
You know, once you get used to having to use only the back door, the apartments are actually quite nice.
Segregation now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever, in 2021!
Who would have thought this kind of thinking has returned?