Involuntary Unpaid Labor is Unfair Labor
The idea that anti-racism isn’t always protesting and policy change, but can instead be restorative community building is not a “hot take.” Celebrating the achievements and cultures of BIPOC students is an act of resistance against Middlebury’s white, racist, and colonialist history (and present). Despite the critical labor that student organizations do in this area, every single board member of every single student-led cultural organization on this campus would tell you that it’s hard work, as well as unpaid labor.