The Holiday Message That Revealed Too Much

The Holiday Message That Revealed Too Much

As Sarah Lawrence College prepared to shut down for Thanksgiving—students heading home for one of the few moments of familial grounding in the academic year—Residential Life chose to send a final communal message. But instead of gratitude, reflection, or a gesture of welcome, students received a land acknowledgment declaring that the campus exists in the “wake of settler colonial occupation” and stands on the “ancestral, present, and future home…