One Year After Evergreen, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying Look Back

by Katie HerzogBret Weinstein and Heather Heying
This year, for what may be first time in four decades, officials at the Evergreen State College canceled the Day of Absence.
Traditionally on the Day of Absence, students, faculty, and staff of color leave campus and convene elsewhere to attend workshops on issues of race and privilege while white students stay on campus and do the same. Later, they reconvene and have discussions. While this is not the sort of tradition you’d see at most col