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CULTURE
Tik Tok Therapists: Ending the Stigma Surrounding Mental Health One Video at a Time
Featured Image: Yahoo! News An app that once had teenagers as its main audience has reached a broader spectrum of users. Therapists…
MARIA ALONSO
POLITICS
The Era of Corona: A Conversation with High-School Juniors
Featured Artwork: Ryan Johnson Note: I wrote this as a feature story for my Anthropology class as a final project. All those…
AVA EVANS
EMPOWERMENT
She is Viv and She is Here for Your V
Featured Artwork: Hazel Mead “Menstruation, or period, is normal vaginal bleeding that occurs as part of a woman’s monthly cycle.” (Menstruation, Period…
GLORY SINGH
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Prozac
When my mental health was at its lowest point, I was given a prescription of Prozac. My mood didn't dip like before,…
MARINA ALI
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
{to} Stay Home {is not to} Stay Safe
Featured Image: Wall Street Journal Hurt you – lying? think not. sure, I mean, what? – not batter lids. silent! – fair,…
HOKIS
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
Reflections on AAPI Heritage Month
Featured Image: PBS SoCal May is a pleasant time of year. It’s when we trade in our textbooks and pages of Statistics…
NABIHA MASOOD
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Mermaid
"Mermaid" is my frustration with the poetry community. As a poet, I should not have to write about all the ways I'm…
MARINA ALI
CULTURE
The Problem with “Yellow Fever” and the Sexual Fetishism of Asian American Women in Film 
Featured Artwork: LA Johnson Throughout cinematographic history, the young Asian American woman has been misrepresented. Asian Americans were nearly nonexistent in classic Hollywood; the…
HANNAH WYMAN
POLITICS
COVID-19: The Story of Women Refugees in Uganda
Featured Images: Matilde Simas COVID-19 has altered our lives forever. Many of us have not seen our loved ones and we aren’t…
LIVANYA GRAMONEY
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
Taking Back the Spotlight: Modest Muslim Fashion
Featured Image: CULTURE Hijab Co. The perception of Muslim women in the mainstream has been, for the lack of a better term,…
NABIHA MASOOD
CULTURE
Am I Too Brown, or Not Brown Enough: Why We Have to Drop the Whitewashing Rhetoric
Featured Artwork: Manjit Thapp “So, you’ve really never watched any of the classic Bollywood movies?” asked a brown girl I had just…
ANGELICA SILVA
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Imperialism
On the fiery fields of Anatolia, She hears the shrill yell of her countrymen. Lead from another land with the ochre and…
MARINA ALI

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