By: Grace Gonzalez As the holiday season approaches, many people embark on new adventures to take advantage of the break. Whether some are just visiting family or travel for personal enjoyment, trips can shift your perspective in many ways. Thailand has become a hot spot for tourists because of how incredibly cheap everything is. You can get cheap delicious food,… Read more →
Art Access for Minorities: A Thought Space It’s becoming clearer that we are all given different, and unequal opportunities. Often this conversation is placed in the context of going to college, securing a job, or basic living and eating necessities. We have a tendency to steer this conversation to the basic necessities of poor people because, it’s true, poor people… Read more →
It’s that wonderful time of year again! Christmas is the time for giving and receiving presents from our loved ones. It’s important to notice the gifts are environmentally friendly and usable for the long-term. Here is a guideline to presents that are eco-friendly and lovable at any time of year. 1. Give one good-quality, durable gift Think back to… Read more →
“There is a pattern here. The concept of women having actual goddamned agency over their lives and bodies, the idea that we might get to decided when, whether, and how to have children is still a threat to the status quo.” Read more →
I first received this small book from my sister when I was in high school. At the time I was very confused about who I was as a person and who I wanted to be in the future. However, aren’t we all at that age? At the time I was still learning about all the injustices that many people face,… Read more →
I recently read Where We Stand by Bell Hooks and I found it to be very insightful and their were a lot of things she talked about that I believed in to. Throughout the book she shares her perspective on how class relates to race and gender. She uses pieces of her life as an example to demonstrate her… Read more →
The short book We Should All Be Feminists was adapted from a TEDx talk from 2012 that Chimamanda Adichie gave in London. In less than 50 pages, Adichie covers stories from her childhood growing up as a female in Nigeria and why it is crucial that we all be feminists. Adichie grew up in Nigeria in… Read more →
Parenting is one of the toughest jobs to date. With difficult conversations, to life lessons, and insurmountable patience, parents can tend to use parenting themselves. 2018 has been a very vocal year against sexual misconduct. With movements such as, #TimesUp and #MeToo, now is the time to instil in your children the importance of consent and importance of our… Read more →
Feminasty hits you where it hurts if you are a woman because Erin Gibson dives into real issues we face today as women in a funny yet sadly accurate depiction. She approached topics like Mike Pence in a hilarious matter, bringing up questionable things he has said in the past like when he “tried to redefine rape as “forcible”… Read more →
Jeff Hobbs had taken his chance friendship with his college roommate Robert Peace, and turned it into a biography that gives all readers a new perspective on a life many are unfamiliar with. “The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace,” follows Robert Peace, an African American man who grew up in New Jersey and eventually went to college at… Read more →