Trinity Hosts First Ever Solidarity Summit

The First Solidarity Summit at Trinity
(photo by Alexandra Gereda-Gordon)

By Alexandra Gereda-Gordon

Nearly 80 students, staff, and administrators filled the Fiesta Room on Friday to attend the inaugural Solidarity Summit hosted by Trinity’s Diversity and Inclusion Office (DIO). 

This brand new event was created to increase awareness of diversity issues on campus and for students and faculty to come together to support one another.

Joshua Anaya, a first year student at Trinity, decided to attend the event to find out “what kind of action we can take as students to take accountability and embrace more solidarity on our campus.”

Poet Presents A Love Letter to Blackness

The poet Kai Davis reads her poems in the Skyline Room on Thursday.
(Photo by KaDarius Lee)

By KaDarius Lee

Trinity University’s Black Student Union hosted a spoken word night on Thursday, featuring the poet Kai Davis, as part of the Black History Month.

About 30 students gathered in the Skyline Room to hear Davis present her love letter to Blackness.

An African American queer woman, Davis mostly deals with the complex issues of race, gender, power, and sexuality in her work.

Black Student Union Hosts Discussion on Colorism

By Blue Mohr

At a discussion about colorism and racism on Wednesday, held by Trinity’s Black Student Union, students came to the consensus that colorism is almost worse than racism.

The meeting was the last event of the group’s Mocha Month, a month long celebration of blackness and black students.

At the discussion, students pointed out that colorism is stereotyping, distinct from racism. It focuses on skin color, regarding lighter skin colors as more preferable than darker colors. Colorism is especially an issue within the black communities, whereas racism comes from outside these communities and is based on race as a whole, rather than just skin tone.