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Anti-semetism: Your Response Is Requested
Anti-semetism: Your Response Is Requested
Photo credit: Natanya
The following is a guest post written by Natanya, a Jewish high-school student reflecting upon the recent massacre of 11 people in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the subsequent response both nationally and in her own community.
On the morning of Saturday, October 27th, I woke on my vacation. I picked up my phone and saw a notification from my friend Abigail. At…
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Empowering Shelly’s Voice: A Roncalli Teen's Fight for LGBTQ+ Rights
Mykal McEldowney/IndyStar
When Madison Aldrich first heard that her favorite guidance counselor, Shelly Fitzgerald, was being suspended over being married to a woman, she was horrified.
“I was so frustrated,” she says. “My mom’s best friend is Shelly’s sister, so I’ve known her since I was little. She’s so sweet, cares about everyone around her, and really loves her job. She doesn’t deserve…
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A Poem About Rape Culture
Photo by Richard Potts
Rape Culture
They say: If you don’t want to be assaulted or raped….
“Don’t wear your favorite pair of shorts in the summer even if it’s hot; you’re leaving your ass up for grabbing.”
“Don’t flirt and kiss a boy and then think you can say no to sex; you were leading him on.”
“Don’t drink at all; you’re at fault when he strips the clothes off your unconscious body and…
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Today Is World Overshoot Day---And Why That Matters
Miriam Espacio
August 1st, 2018, marks World Overshoot Day.
It’s the day when the entire world has used up all of Earth’s resources faster than the Earth and its natural systems can replenish them. 243 days into 2018, and humanity has overshot the Earth, and is now on life support in terms of resources—-or, as the Global Footprint Network puts it, “Humanity is currently using nature 1.7 times…
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Why Self-Care Should Be About Simplicity
Photo Credit: Noah Buscher
Self-care.
The idea of it has become a trend itself. Go on Pinterest and you’ll find tons of ideas for self-care and dealing with personal challenges (Put down your phone! Do a detox! Start that bubble bath tonight!) Read any blog or magazine and you will find many articles about self-care– all about cultivating physical and emotional well-being. The phrase “Treat yo…
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The Refugees Gave Me Flowers
The Refugees Gave Me Flowers
Photo by Avik Saha
When I first stepped into the little school, I saw a sign that said “All are welcome here.” It was my first time volunteering, a core requirement of service for my one semester social justice class. The goal, my teacher had said, was for us to have direct contact with impoverished or marginalized people, though not to see them as “the other”; rather, we were here to serve them…
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Parkland Yearbook Photographer Documents Grief and Activism
Emma Gonzalez, March For Our Lives, Photo by Hayden Korr Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Senior Hayden Korr was with her psychology class when she first heard the gunshots from Nikolas Cruz’s AR-15. “They sounded incredibly fake,” She said. But, nevertheless, her psychology class was already responding to the fire alarm being pulled, and had ended up in a field outside of the school. “We…
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What Happened When I Met Nick Robinson, Star of 'Love Simon'
20th Century Fox I’ve been wanting to tell this story for a while. When I was 14, I met Nick Robinson. Just after he had gained recognition for his role in Jurassic World, preceding when he was starring in Everything Everything, and most definitely before he was the face of Love, Simon. I met Nick Robinson on the set of The 5th Wave, an alien teen flick starring Chloe Grace Moretz as a girl…
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We're Hunted In Schools, So Now We March In the Streets
Photo Credit: Mary Ann Carter It Could Have Been Us By: Isabelle Stewart Death flashing on a screen No longer makes me cringe Maybe it’s acceptance, Maybe it’s defeat. I sit in a classroom Watching their faces and I know This time, things are different These people are not defeated They are angry. Clarity washes over me Like jumping into ice cold water. Shock and one resounding, repeating…
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Life Undocumented: An Interview with a Dreamer
By Pax Ahimsa Gethen – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, WikiCommons All names have been changed to protect anonymity. *Michelle was just two years old when her family made the final harrowing journey to the United States. It took thirteen attempts before they successfully crossed the Mexican-American border. “I don’t remember the journey, but my parents have told me stories,” she says, recounting that…
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Black Teens On 'Back Panther', Media Representation
Image source: Marvel The following is a discussion post about the new flim, Black Panther and minority representation in the film industry. Black Panther is a Marvel super-hero movie that includes a majority black cast and many elements of African culture. This type of representation is rare, considering a 2016 USC Study reported by NPR news that says “only 7% of films had a cast whose balance of…
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18 School Shootings In 2018. We Must Do Something.
Photo of parents reacting to today’s school shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School. AP Photo/Joel Auerbach. Today, 17 high school students lost their lives in a shooting in Parkland, Florida. According to ABC News, this is the 18th school shooting since 2018 began. We are 45 days into the year. On about 40% of those days, we’ve had a school shooting. There’s a cycle to this madness. Someone…
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Mindfulness To the Minute: Be Present in the Small Moments
Photo Credit: Cristina Gottardi Psychology Today defines mindfulness as “a state of active, open attention to the present,” with the ultimate goal of “living in the moment and awakening to your current experience, rather than dwelling on your past or anticipating the future.” “Yeah, right,” says your cellphone, every news station in the country, all of your school work, your chores, your sports…
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Interview: This Is What a Nasty Woman Looks Like
Source: Nina Mariah “I’m nasty like the battles my grandmothers fought to get me into that voting booth.” Nineteen year old Nina Mariah Donovan was watching the final 2016 Presidential Debate with her family when a candidate’s insult struck her as inspiration. “The minute Trump called Hillary a nasty women, I immediately wrote down ‘I’m a nasty women’ and knew it was going to be my next piece.”…
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#MeToo: A Moment In Time or a Historic Movement?
#MeToo: A Fleeting Moment or a Lasting Movement?
Photo by Mihai Surdu The United States Department of Justice defines sexual assault as “any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient. Falling under the definition of sexual assault are sexual activities as forced sexual intercourse, forcible sodomy, child molestation, incest, fondling, and attempted rape.” The U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission…
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Be Good to the Environment in 2018
Image by Saz B On the first day of my environmental science class, we took a very eye-opening quiz on our lifestyle choices and how they affect the planet. After entering in information such as how many miles we drive per week, how much meat we eat, our house size and its renewable energy sources (or lack thereof), and just about everything from yearly air travel to how much locally grown food we…
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The Legacy of Senator Richard Lugar In His Own Words
Richard G. Lugar served two terms as the Mayor of Indianapolis before representing Indiana for six consecutive terms (from 1976 to 2012) as a U.S. Senator. As a Senator, he served as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1985 to 1987, and again from 2005 to 2007. After his time in the Senate, he founded a Washington D.C.-based non-profit organization, the Lugar Center,…
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