The MIT Intercultural Engagement Center is thrilled to announce its upcoming Cultural Organization Executive Board Luncheon. This annual event brings together the leadership of MIT’s 70-plus cultural organizations for an afternoon of catered validation, strategic nourishment, and the ceremonial appreciation of intersecting identities struggling to overcome historical oppression.

This year’s guest list represents the full glorious mosaic of the human condition.

Confirmed regular attendees include the Black Students’ Union, the Latino Cultural Center, LGBTQ+ Services, the Haiti Club, Chocolate City, Afghans@MIT, Hillel, the Arab Student Organization, and the American Sign Language and Deaf Culture Club.

The newest additions to MIT’s effort to ramp up as many affinity groups as possible that need to be pandered to by large teams of Student Life deans, administrators, committees, and chaplains include the MIT Association of Left-Handed Scandinavian Accordion Players, the Coalition of Neurodivergent Vegan Ectomorphs, the MIT Chapter of Demi-Romantic Asexual Furries for Climate Justice, and Jews for Hamas.

We can’t wait to see which of these worthy groups will win a RISE Award for Excellence in Programming!

In a gesture of radical inclusion that has drawn widespread admiration, the Center has extended an invitation to the Society of Cis White Males of Appalachian Heritage, MIT’s newest oppressed group. Their table will be located near the kitchen since it was just a short while ago that they were considered to be among the privileged.

Lunch will be served, with 47 distinct menu options to accommodate the halal, kosher, gluten-free, vegan, nondairy, fair-trade, nut-free, locally grown, free-range, organic, and decolonized-ingredient requirements of the assembled delegations. The accordion players have requested Swedish meatballs. This has been flagged for cultural review on condition that they refrain from performing.

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