{"id":602,"date":"2022-08-16T18:56:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T22:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wbbm.digitalprojects.brynmawr.edu\/dev\/?page_id=602"},"modified":"2022-08-30T15:55:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T19:55:04","slug":"today","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wbbm.digitalprojects.brynmawr.edu\/why-build\/exhibit\/imagining\/today\/","title":{"rendered":"Belonging at Bryn Mawr Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Although 137 years have passed since Bryn Mawr opened its doors, the legacy of the College\u2019s founders lingers in the physical spaces they built, the curriculum they designed, and the vision of communal life they imagined.\u202fContending with an institution that was built with exclusion in mind  remains an ongoing struggle. \u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We still grapple with restrictive ideas and realities about who belongs at Bryn Mawr and on what terms. Regrettably, some express their exclusionary views through harmful acts. Others mobilize to fight for necessary change in our community.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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May 2022<\/h2>\n

Through the coordinated efforts of students, faculty, and administrators, a new undergraduate course requirement in “Power, Inequity, and Justice” is approved by the faculty<\/p>\n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n

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March 2022<\/h2>\n

During Welcome the First Years Week, transphobic graffiti is sprayed on the pavement in a central location on campus<\/p>\n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n

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February 1, 2022<\/h2>\n

On the first day of Black History Month, another instance of hateful anti-Black graffiti is discovered in the same on-campus residence hall<\/p>\n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n

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January 21, 2022<\/h2>\n

Hateful anti-Black graffiti discovered inside an on-campus residence hall<\/p>\n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n

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November 2021<\/h2>\n

The second Who Built Bryn Mawr? exhibition, “1960s Students Confronting Race” opens<\/p>\n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n

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January 2021<\/h2>\n

The first Who Built Bryn Mawr? exhibition, “A Beginning” opens, launching an ongoing institutional history project in response to students’ demands for greater transparency about the institution’s recognition of its problematic legacies<\/p>\n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n

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November 1-19, 2020<\/h2>\n

Black, brown, and first-generation low-income students formed the Bryn Mawr Strike Coalition (now the Black Student Liberatory Coalition) and led the longest strike in Bryn Mawr’s history in “response to the legacy of trauma and anguish and the historic lack of sympathy, true proactivity, and response from the College”<\/p>\n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n \n

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October 29-November 11, 2020<\/h2>\n

BIPOC and low-income students of Haverford College lead a strike to “Disrupt the Order” and acknowledge the College’s contribution to violent histories of disenfranchisement, genocide, oppression, and injustice<\/p>\n \n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n \n

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August 2017<\/h2>\n

The History Working Group is formed to examine histories of exclusion and resistance in the College’s past<\/p>\n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n

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2015<\/h2>\n

Senior students Grace Pusey and Emma Kiako pursue an independent research project that launches Black at Bryn Mawr, an ongoing program that surfaces underrepresented stories and experiences of African American students, faculty, and staff<\/p>\n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n \n

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2014<\/h2>\n

A Confederate Flag is hung and the Mason-Dixon line is drawn on the floor of a campus dorm. The incident receives national media attention and students organize a campus-wide protest and mobilization of solidarity against hate<\/p>\n \n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n \n

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2013<\/h2>\n

A student-made flier with anti-Black imagery is taped to the door of a Bryn Mawr professor’s office<\/p>\n \n <\/div> \n <\/div> \n <\/section> \n\n\n\n

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This timeline includes empty spaces to mark events and incidents that have gone unreported or unaddressed.\u200b<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whose stories and experiences remain undocumented in the College\u2019s archive? <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Return to: Imagining Bryn Mawr<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Continue to: Exclusionary Legacies<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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