Talk:Erika Christakis

Halloween sources

Some better sources on the Halloween incident:

• http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/us/yale-lecturer-resigns-after-email-on-halloween-costumes.html
• http://www.vox.com/2015/11/7/9689330/yale-halloween-email
• http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/yales-unsafe-spaces
• http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/2015/11/12/yale-professors-center-protests-criticized-harvard-free-speech-surveillance-state/FBy8fMbVhYez5heVRcZisM/story.html
• http://www.salon.com/2015/11/11/whos_really_demanding_to_be_coddled_on_campus_yale_students_arent_the_spoiled_brats_for_refusing_to_be_racially_trolled_on_halloween/

czar 17:07, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Also here:http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/the-peril-of-writing-a-provocative-email-at-yale/484418/ E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:09, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Ah ‘the Halloween incident’ ... what an age we live in. WisDom-UK (talk) 15:26, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Do you want even more partial sources ? 2A01:CB0C:8827:E100:81FF:8503:F9FE:32E (talk) 09:09, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

"Christakis argued that, from a developmental perspective, students might wish to consider whether administrators should provide such guidance to college-age students."

Why is everything presented in the most charitable way possible? She argued more than that.

"I’ve always been a good mimic and I enjoy accents." "Am I fetishizing and appropriating others’ cultural experiences? Probably." 'Is there no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious... a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?' 2A01:CB0C:8827:E100:81FF:8503:F9FE:32E (talk) 09:14, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Her email made a lot of points, but the primary framing had to do with whether college-age students at Yale needed administrative advice about how to avoid causing offense, and was driven from her perspective as a developmental psychologist. Regardless, her full email (which has been endlessly analyzed since then) is available online and was linked in the main article: https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/email-erika-christakis-dressing-yourselves-email-silliman-college-yale-students

Also, this email episode was only one part of her life and not the core part (e.g., she is a widely published author and a NYT bestseller, etc.); hence, the brevity of this section on free expression makes sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.7.90 (talk) 14:09, 4 October 2025 (UTC)