Documenting Black Resilience at Vassar

Resilience reconciles the past, sustains the present, and provides a roadmap for the future. Documenting stories about resilience is essential to strengthening community and building an archive, framework, or praxis around collective power. How is Black student resilience—both on campus and in the post-graduate world—being documented?

In this un-workshop, Matt Ford’17 will guide Black-identified Vassar alums and current students through a conversation and writing exercise reflecting on Black student storytelling and healing. Alums and current students will discuss their unique experiences on and off campus, write about the resources that helped them (at least begin to) thrive, and create a collective archive of their stories to share with generations of Black Vassar students to come.