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Boundary Setting is Essential for Mental Health
Featured Illustration: Carmi Grau It is important to note that when someone is placing a boundary on you, it’s usually a positive sign that they want to improve and grow your relationship/friendship. Boundary setting is important for mental health and to get to know oneself throughout our journey to healing. Chances are that in relationships/friendships, Read more
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Don’t Fight With Crazy
Featured Illustration: Yazmin Butcher One of the times I’d been called a nigger… I decided to go to a new meeting of a twelve-step group that I’m part of and I found a new one in West Los Angeles. The meeting was at a Jewish senior center called “The Mahood” on Santa Monica Boulevard and Read more
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From a Meme to a Social Critique: Who Is “Karen”?
Prefaced by the “can I speak to the manager” meme which first emerged in 2014, the “Karen” trope has since stepped in and taken social media by storm as evidenced by the crowds of online pages dedicated to it, such as the r/F—YouKaren subreddit which has garnered more than 881,000 members since its conception in Read more
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Granted
Featured Illustration: Titus Kaphar We take human life For granted We treat a mother’s child Like they’re an isolated entity We see Through hollow eyes And empty hearts As if one teardrop Doesn’t stain their clothes Or one death Doesn’t ripple into more A life Wrapped by skin And blanketed By her Read more
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Perpetuating Abolition in the Language We Use: Does ‘BIPOC’ Get the Job Done?
Featured Illustration: Ameya Okamoto Recently, activists have turned to the term “BIPOC” in order to refer to their own personal identities. BIPOC, which stands for Black, Indigenous, and people of color, is used in order to decolonize identity. The term recognizes the roles Native invisibility, anti-Blackness, and white supremacy have played in the oppressive history Read more
