Shades of Twilight
What does it mean that a 19th-century man who passed as white is a modern-day African American icon?
Stories
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That’s Entertainment!
Diana Shulman ’56, who performs as D’yan Forest, is the world’s oldest working comedienne at 89 and has no plans to retire her bawdy, ukulele-strumming act any time soon.
The Power of Food
Two alumni from the Class of 2023 won third place in the U.S.-Mexico Bicentennial Kaleidoscope Short Film Contest.
Mind-Dog Connection
Kate Speer Fisher ’09.5 holds nothing back in sharing her mental health journey through misdiagnoses, hospitalizations, friendships, and the help of “fluff-bombing” dogs on the podcast Depresh Mode with John Moe.
Growing Abenaki Culture
WCAX profiled the efforts of the Abenaki Language School to preserve language and culture, in addition to developing more visual and audio media.
To Hide and Be Seen
1970s Lesbian Life
Browse more than 1,500 images from the Bee Ottinger ’70 Lesbian Collection, which is now available online. Ottinger documented life in the early ’70s at the Lesbian House, a community in Los Angeles for queer women rejected by their families.
After Moving to the Country
Geography professor Peter Nelson was a featured guest on a recent episode of the WBUR podcast On Point focusing on big-city dwellers who increasingly leave for small towns and suburbs.
Bars, Beats, Moves, Art
Jordan Saint-Louis ’24 created a short documentary featuring the various artists who came to Middlebury’s hip-hop symposium in March.