Student Starts Hunger Strike To Bring Attention To Bias Concerns At Texas Wesleyan

Arlington TX

11 March, 2022

5:45 PM

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By Sandra Sadek, Fort Worth Report March 10, 2022 Students of color at Texas Wesleyan University are taking action, including one on a hunger strike, to spotlight what they describe as "a hostile student experience" created by bias and prejudice on campus. The Black Student Association released a list of demands this week to the administration. The demands include the implementation of bias, prejudice and microaggression workshops for students, as well as a plan that includes minority representation in the social science curriculum. The demands also ask for steps and a timeline toward creating ethnic studies classes. Queen Elizondo, president of the Black Student Association and a senior sociology major, began her hunger strike on March 7. Students of color have to package their feelings to make others feel more comfortable, she said. The needs of students of color remain unheard. "I want people to know that it took this physical representation of me being on a hunger strike for people to start to understand what students go through every day," she said. "The physical pain that I might feel through a hunger strike is the equivalent to the emotional and mental turmoil that students are taking on in these hostile classroom situations. So this is nothing new." To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.