New Perspectives through Graphic Novels
History professor Rebecca Ayako Bennette strongly believes in the importance of studying history today, and the need to adapt her teaching to the times.
Stories
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Political Dreams
Middlebury Magazine profiled Elsa Alvarado ’18, who at 24 was one of the youngest political appointees to the Pentagon.
Shades of Twilight
What does it mean that a 19th-century man who passed as white is a modern-day African American icon?
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.