WSU resource center hosts workshop on systemic racism, privilege
JENAE LAXSON, Evergreen reporter
October 19, 2020
WSU’s Gender Identity/Expression and Sexual Orientation Resource Center held an event on Saturday to discuss systemic racism and the benefits of correcting behavior rather than labeling someone as racist or homophobic. Racism is systemic, said Lisa Guerrero, WSU professor of comparative ethnic studies...
Panelists analyze memoir about life during apartheid
ANGELICA RELENTE, Evergreen editor in chief
September 25, 2020
Three individuals discussed their thoughts on Trevor Noah’s “Born a Crime” on Thursday at a virtual panel hosted by WSU’s Global Learning Program. They also shared their experiences growing up during apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid started in 1948, which heightened racial divides in South Africa. One of the laws enforced included th...
Access Center, disabled students club host virtual disability awareness series
SYDNEY BROWN, Evergreen reporter
September 14, 2020
Speakers will emphasize how intersectionality affects those who live with disabilities during a WSU-systemwide virtual disability awareness series this fall. Events will start this Wednesday and continue until November. Steve Way, actor and comedian with muscular dystrophy, will kick off the ser...
WSU librarian compiles list of anti-racist resources
CHERYL AARNIO, Evergreen reporter
July 22, 2020
A WSU librarian created a resource guide of books to encourage conversation about race and racism. After the murder of George Floyd, there was a lot of self examination, both for individuals and for institutions, WSU Libraries librarian Erica Nicol said. The anti-racist resources guide was create...
WSU student confronts reality of being bisexual, biracial woman
JAYCE CARRAL, Evergreen reporter
July 13, 2020
Finding accepting people and an accepting community who acknowledge her as a multifaceted being is something Samantha King-Shaw, a biracial and bisexual woman, has been working on for a while now. “Once I was introduced to sexuality as a spectrum ... That was when it clicked,” said Samantha...
‘I shouldn’t have to put it on a sign for people to know that I’m worthy of life’
JAYCE CARRAL and ANGELICA RELENTE
May 31, 2020
A demonstrator waved a pole with the American flag hung upside-down. People waved posters that read “I can’t breathe” and “A riot is the language of the unheard” in the air. About 100 demonstrators marched through downtown Pullman on Sunday in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter mov...
Two females over 80 years old have died from COVID-19, which brings Whitman County’s total deaths to 16. Thirteen individuals tested positive for...
