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POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Meditations: A Series of Self-Portraits
What I wear can’t be replaced.  Inside or out, it always stays the same. Day after day, I look at myself and…
JALEN ADAMS
EMPOWERMENT
Turning Loneliness Into Passion
Featured Illustration: Seung Won Chun I’m sure most American students are familiar with “burning out”. Our society is no stranger to the…
MIKA ALEXANDER
LIFE
Quarantine Workaholism: A Different Beast
Featured Illustration: Raz Latif Ever since quarantine began, it seems that everyone is pushing themselves to new heights. Comments like, “You should…
CINDY TRAN
POLITICS
China’s Mass Genocide
Featured Image: Foreign Policy In the past week, a video of a little Uyghur boy being beaten has been circulating around social…
ZAINEB SHARIF
CULTURE, LIFE
The Black Diner Experience
Featured Image: Saimon Ma My grandma owned a diner in D.C. called “Mary’s Place” for over 30 years. Every summer as a…
AMIR M. W.
EMPOWERMENT
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…
MARIA ALONSO
CULTURE, LIFE
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…
TRACEY SIMMONS
CULTURE, POLITICS
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…
IRENE SCHRADER
EMPOWERMENT, THE ARTS
Tulle
VICKY CHARLES
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Granted
Featured Illustration: Titus Kaphar We take human life For granted We treat a mother’s child Like they’re an isolated entity   We…
SANJANA KARTHIK
POLITICS
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,…
MIKA ALEXANDER
CULTURE
Why Humanities Should Be Required For STEM Majors
Featured Illustration: Nicolas Ogonosky Whenever school budget cuts are proposed, an event that is becoming far too frequent, one of the first…
AMY NGUYEN

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