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Breonna and Brutality: Why Aren’t Black Women Receiving Justice?

Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American woman and medical worker from Louisville, Kentucky, was shot and killed by armed police officers during a botched drug raid on her apartment. Only one…

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Virtual School Is Bringing the Carceral State Into Students’ Homes

Last August, a Black seventh-grader in Colorado had the police called to his home for showing a toy gun to his virtual art class. His parents weren’t notified until the…

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White People, Why Is It So Hard to Dump Your Racist Friends?

Following the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement became more powerful than ever. The country reached its boiling point: the streets were…

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Coastal Supremacy Is Classist (And a Little Racist)

When Donald Trump was elected in 2016, a not-so-uncommon conversation in my Northern California town was whether or not California should secede from the Union. “We’d have the ninth highest…

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“WitchTok” and the New Wave of Political Spirituality

TikTok has become the home of modern witchcraft, with more and more “baby witches” joining “WitchTok” every day. United by an interest in the occult, these self-proclaimed witches will post…

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Streetwear and Its Roots in Black Culture

Before fatally shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012, neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman told the 911 dispatcher that the young man in “a dark hoodie, a gray hoodie” was a “suspicious…

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Being Latinx Has Nothing to Do With BLM

I love my culture. Simply put: I’m proud to be Mexican. I take pride in my identity as a Mexican-American and try to use my perspective as a person of…

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Our Anti-Racist Reading Lists Are Still Kinda Racist

When I watched the straw break the camel’s back and a racial justice movement exploded before my eyes, I compiled a reading list before I went to a protest. My…

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Coastal Supremacy Is Classist (And a Little Racist)

Streetwear and Its Roots in Black Culture

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A Not-So-Screenworthy Senior Year

The Body-Positive Movement Will Not Be Advertised

Rihanna, Freud, and Mormon Porn: Religious Fetishism in Pop Culture

Being Latinx Has Nothing to Do With BLM

Our Anti-Racist Reading Lists Are Still Kinda Racist

From Holidays to Riots, Conservatives Deliberately Miss the Point

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A Not-So-Screenworthy Senior Year

The Body-Positive Movement Will Not Be Advertised

Rihanna, Freud, and Mormon Porn: Religious Fetishism in Pop Culture

A Not-So-Screenworthy Senior Year

The Body-Positive Movement Will Not Be Advertised

Rihanna, Freud, and Mormon Porn: Religious Fetishism in Pop Culture

Pleasuring Myself as a Virgin

Why I Love Chick Lit

Reclaiming My Mother Tongue

We’re Different People Now: On Getting Back With Exes

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