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Don’t only wonder if what you’re saying makes sense, or is appropriate. Consider what you have to believe about yourself, society, or morality in order to say it. It’ll teach you a lot about yourself.
One day, perhaps we can sober up and stop expecting politicians working within oppressive systems to offer us real relief from the systemic problems we face. Alternatively, we can have a huge panic attack and make our friends call EMS on us.
She smiles. I mean, she’s wearing a mask and also a face shield over the mask and also gloves, but I assume she smiles.
How did the so-called followers of Christ become the same people trying to uphold racism and topple the government? Well, friends, it all boils down to two words…Trash Theology.
In June, President Vincent Price published a statement about anti-racist initiatives. In December, Duke's alumni magazine published a letter to the editor that gaslighted anti-Black oppression, shamed BIPOC for their marginalization and demonstrated overt racism.
Our new minor, believed to be just the second of its kind in American higher education, will not solve these problems. But it does signify a key step in what promises to be a very long journey.
How can admissions be considered fair, just and need-blind when a select, privileged few are afforded a “supporting” voice on the basis of nepotism?
To engage in pleasure-based sex is to release yourself from your mind’s prison, from managing and calculating your every appearance, sound and movement, and from enduring pain or discomfort to save your partner’s ego.
Once you know it to be unjust, upholding the status quo makes you part of the problem. Don’t be a centrist.
While the outcome of the 2020 presidential election can certainly dispel some of our political anxiety, the fight to address climate change and pollution must persist.
Today, November 8, 2020, of all days, I’m thinking about that final senior column I didn’t write.
It’s been an honor to serve as your plague jester. But I’m tired. I’m ready to hang up the proverbial mascot costume. It stinks in here. And I think the last guy vomited through the eye holes.
Understanding that Christ was NOT a white man who stood for status and abuses of power matters. Actually, it does more than matter; it is imperative.
"Everyone’s trying to rush to a certain destination. Take your time; you’ll get to your destination."
It’s clear that we’re seeing a new path forward for privacy advocates: the ballot box.
When we lose sight of the personality of others and act as if we own everything and owe nothing, we turn from love to hate and violence.
Even after Donald Trump leaves office next year, people will continue to organize on the ground as they have been for centuries. It is our duty to join them.
Losing our ability to share a meal together is going to make this last month really difficult, but following health guidelines comes first.
Vote for yesterday’s tomorrow, today.
Aside from Covid-19 happening, which has found me sitting in my sparsely decorated childhood bedroom day in and day out rather than living the “good ole college experience,” I am beginning to suspect that I wouldn’t have had a Serious College Boyfriend™ anyway.
