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POLITICS

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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, 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
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
POLITICS
The 21st Century Holocaust
Featured Illustration: ABC News Today, the world is still haunted by the Holocaust that took place decades ago in Germany. Pictures flooded…
ZAINEB SHARIF
POLITICS
Activism is Not Terrorism: The “Anti-Terror” Bill of the Philippines
Featured Illustration: CJ Andrea Despite the implications the name might suggest, the recently signed “Anti-Terror” Bill of the Philippines does not enforce…
GWYNNETH RESULTA
POLITICS
Allyship in the White Space
Featured Illustration: Mikyung Lee The moment is mostly a drunken memory. A house full of sweaty, white bodies reeking of entitlement. Whether…
VISHWANATH BETAPUDI
POLITICS
The Children Deemed Worthy of Justice in the UK
Featured Illustration: Nasiha On Thursday, 3rd May 2007, Madeleine McCann, a three-year-old girl from Leicester, disappeared from her holiday home in the…
R.
CULTURE, LIFE
The Joy of Being Human
Joy has been popping up in my feeds a lot lately. One of the more recent posts was an image of a…
NADIA KAMIES
CULTURE, POLITICS
The New York Wealth Bubble
Featured Image: Luke Stackpoole The tall expanse of the Williamsburg Bridge casts a deep shadow on the Brooklyn neighborhood. It’s a hot…
SASHA ROBERTS
CULTURE, POLITICS
Privilege as a Person of Color
Featured Artwork: Alice Skinner Scrolling through social media these last few weeks has brought so many things to my attention. I’ve become…
ZAINEB SHARIF
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Firestorm Winds
Kiss me like you are grateful for me. That I exist. Not because I am special, no. My flesh and blood are…
HOKIS
POLITICS
The 7 Privileges
Featured Artwork: Claire Merchlinsky Although Pride Month is usually a time for celebration, this year, the LGBTQ+ community held off on the…
AMY NGUYEN

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