“Grinnell College: a perpetual complaint about capitalism.”
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"Cummings, Michael. ‘Angst, Politics and Drywall: An Ethnography of the Burling Bathroom Walls.’ Grinnell: Grinnell College Press, 2023"
- Michael Cummings ’18, Twitter
“Reject the notion that there is one-size-fits-all in the social justice movement.”
- Kesho Scott, associate professor of sociology and American studies, speaking at the Women’s March on Iowa, Jan. 21, 2017
“If this tornado is about to hit Grinnell, I best be somewhere where there’s food.”
- Ashley Wehrenberg ’19, Twitter
“According to npr, congress picks office space like grinnell college did room draw in the late ’90s.”
- Molly Backes ’02, Twitter
“May I just say, I am so grateful to be in the classroom teaching a fiction workshop today. Art could not be more integral to resistance.”
- Alissa Nutting, assistant professor of English, Twitter, on inauguration day, Jan. 20, 2017
“The team organized a paper goods drive to donate to Crisis Intervention Services, which provides support and empowerment to victims/survivors of domestic and dating violence and/or sexual assault.”
- Pioneer Swimming, Instagram
“Her [associate professor Kesho Scott] class changed the way I thought about myself and about America. I’m still thinking and talking about it 25 years later!”
- Zachary Polsky ’95, Facebook, comment on Scott’s induction into the Iowa African-American Hall of Fame
“Three years at Grinnell and I finally learned that Iowa nice is when you’re really polite but you still vote for/endorse Chuck Grassley.”
- Eva Lilienfeld ’17, Twitter
“An incredible three days with these grinnell college women in tech — this is what a grinnell computer scientist looks like.”
- Sarah Trop ’17, Twitter