The “Language of Unuttering Darkness”: A History of Dark Phrases

Over the past fifty-five years, Sarah Lawrence has supposedly been a haven for student voices to be heard, and our history has shown an illustrative example of the power of student activism. It takes persistence and insistence for change, but Dark Phrases is living proof of that legacy. On our thirty-fifth anniversary, we wanted to share Sarah Lawrence’s history of student activism until 1989 and our origins.