By Samrat Pradhan Today in class, our reading circle group read the play Lysistrata out loud. Written in 411 BCE, the play follows Greek women who are fed up with the senseless destruction caused by the Peloponnesian War. To get the Greek men to end the war, the women stage a strike to stop havingContinue reading “Lysistrata and Fighting For Our Voices”
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Using Indigenous Voices and Changing the Historical Narrative
By Samrat Pradhan When I think about my school education on Native Americans, they generally followed a very similar narrative. There is first a quick and broad generalization on how indigenous communities lived post-Columbus and then a general timeline of specific trade agreements, treaties, and battles with Western colonizers. This oversimplification is problematic in manyContinue reading “Using Indigenous Voices and Changing the Historical Narrative”
Constructions of Gender in Literature 