Cornell May Day Student Protests: ‘F*ck America’, ‘F*ck Masculinity’ ‘Fight the Straightness’
Cornell students on Friday engaged in May Day protests across campus, marching from the Arts Quad to a street intersection where students proceeded to sit in the road for over an hour. There students and faculty took turns delivering short speeches and tirades covering a range of topics, including, but not limited to, the following: systematic racism, sexism, rape culture, the riots in Baltimore, microaggressions, Cornell’s occupation of indigenous lands, capitalism, oil companies, patriarchy, masculinity, and straightness.
You can read a fuller recap of the May Day protests from our previous coverage here: “Mayday, Mayday: Student Protesters Take Stage at Cornell President’s Farewell Party, Jazz Band Plays On.”
Here’s a video from today’s events (language warning):
