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Indigenous Perspectives on Gender: How the Gender Binary is Rooted in Colonialism
In the US, there has been a massive conservative backlash and moral panic in response to transgender visibility. In 2023 alone, 576...
Traci Holmer
Oct 24, 2023


The Emerging Underground Sound: The Significance of Black Alternative Artists
Tyler The Creator For many young black kids, it can be a struggle to find positive media representation. Being unable to see yourself in...
Kai Bradner
Oct 24, 2023


Dopesick: How Corporate Lies Spearheaded the Opioid Epidemic
(Hulu’s Dopesick) How much does it take for us to trust what we hear? Surely, we all know people who will believe every headline they...
Archana Sathiyamoorthy
Oct 24, 2023


Protection and Prevention: Title IX’s Role in Supporting Victims of Sexual Assault at Universities
Student-run organizations at the University of Lynchburg protesting against the poor response of reported sexual assault cases, November...
Kayla Arch
Sep 27, 2023


Colonization and Ethnic Violence - What Happens When the West Leaves
https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar/296-long-haul-ahead-myanmars-rohingya-refugee-crisis On January 4, 1948, while...
Maria Johnsonbough
Sep 27, 2023


Grooming, Pedophilia, and Sexualization - A Lesson in Semantics
A March 2022 Protest in St. Petersburg, FL over the Passage of HB 1557 In recent years, conservative American ideologues have launched a...
Emma Behrens
Sep 24, 2023


Srebrenica: More Than Just a Failure
Gravestones at the Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Centre Following the aftermath of World War I, the country of Yugoslavia was created. The...
Adam Ghannoum
Aug 13, 2023


A History of Climate Denial: How Big Oil Fooled Generations of Americans
Participant in the climate strikes of 2019 addresses climate denial in government. What is Climate Change? Climate change describes...
Traci Holmer
Aug 13, 2023


“Youth, Nihilism, and the Importance of ‘The Orange’”
“Still life with a book and oranges” by Paul Signac “The Orange” by Wendy Cope is a short but sweet poem about the simplicities of...
Willow Whitaker
Aug 13, 2023


The Crisis of Modern Masculinity: What It Means “To Be a Man”
An artistic interpretation based off of a statue of Zeno of Citium, the Father of Stoicism. His philosophy was defined by indifference in...
Amari I. Seldon
May 15, 2023


Our Experts Versus Theirs: The Rise of Technopopulism
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, 2018. Previously a law professor who had never held elected office, his government straddled the...
Mauro Gonzalez
May 15, 2023


All About Love
Writer and social critic Bell Hooks posing for a photo on December 16, 1996 In her 1999 book All About Love, the esteemed scholar,...
Christopher Clarke
May 15, 2023


The Fight for DC Statehood: Why Home Rule Isn’t Enough
In 2021, there was a rally calling for the expansion of federal voting rights in DC that had thousands of protestors. The status of the...
Traci Holmer
May 15, 2023


Could the U.S. Have Prevented Death during the Rwandan Genocide?
Snapshot of Victims of the Rwandan Genocide What should we have done differently? In the months and years leading up to the Rwandan...
Hazel Montgomery-Walsh
May 15, 2023


The Weaponization of "Parents' Rights" in the Right's War Against Public Education
Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters After losing the House in 2018, and the presidency and Senate in 2020, the Republican Party sought a change in...
Alex Horn
May 15, 2023


A Presidential Catfight
Did running for President turn into a reality TV show? Tune in next year to find out. Then-Vice President Joe Biden takes a selfie with a...
Nick Woods
May 15, 2023


Gross Data Garbage
Melbourne at night from the International Space Station The recording of national data has only been an expectation for a few decades....
Lucas Rivero
Apr 25, 2023


Unpacking Bias in the Music Industry: Frank Ocean's Impactful Silence
Vakseen Art In a move that was equal parts blonde ambition and artistic integrity, American singer and songwriter Christopher Breaux,...
Aadit Manyem
Apr 24, 2023


The Sound of Intelligence: AI in the Music Industry
Cathryn Virginia In a world where AI has gone from composing lullabies for robots to infiltrating the very core of human expression, the...
Aadit Manyem
Apr 24, 2023


From FYP to Center Stage: Breakout Artist D4vd Shows How TikTok is Changing the Music Industry
Source: Hope Obadan, NME When self-taught David Burke started making music in his bedroom at 17-year old, he never imagined one of those...
Ella Jacobs
Apr 24, 2023
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