She is Fierce: The coronavirus is not the ‘great equalizer.’ Not yet, anyway
Looking back on history, some major social changes came from our greatest challenges.
Expat Generation: Challenging privilege requires gratitude and teamwork
There is something markedly vicious about the hostility with which privilege is currently often discussed in the United States. An accusatory tone stews division between people where consensus might have otherwise been attained.
The Eck’s Factor: How Giggle and Zoom reinforce discriminatory gender norms
Zoom University does not allow genderqueer individuals, as well as LGBTQ-identifying people, to sign up. The website is merely a hot spot for cisgender, heterosexual people.
The Bar-On Brief: Lessons from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
If there’s one day to not only remember but never forget, it’s today. It’s the 27th day of the Jewish month of Nissan: Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
’90s Kid Unleashed: It’s the end of the world and we know it: fatalism and humor
Call it sarcasm, satire, absurdism, irony, gallows humor, black comedy or dark humor: Fatalistic millennial humor is all of this, everything in between and a little extra thrown in like cilantro to delight or disgust you, depending on your taste.
Holding Center: The United States is heading left
Consider the major cultural shifts of the past two decades: How many of them were conservative victories? From gay marriage to abortion, even the expanding welfare state –– liberalism is slowly winning out.
She is Fierce: The feminist movement must move forward with its inclusivity
It seems impossible to just stand for women’s rights and not take into account or try to educate oneself on the needs of other underrepresented groups and make sure activists who identify with those groups have a seat at the table.
Expat Generation: Language is a reflection of culture, learning a new language is a reflection of yourself
We take language to be our own but we forget that it never was, and even as it releases our minds from inner silence, it constricts our thoughts to the molds of a particular language’s grammar logic and sentence structure.
The Eck’s Factor: Hypercompetitive pre-health academic culture is not conducive to fostering compassionate physicians
To counter the counterintuitive setting of pre-health academic culture, students must start by expanding their perspectives beyond their letter grades.
Gray Matter: Human psychology makes social distancing a challenge
Many people, especially low-income individuals and essential workers, do not have the option of social distancing. But for those who do and choose not to, the continued dismissal of quarantine policies has been both baffling and frustrating to workers at the frontline battling the pandemic.