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In this world, we are taught, often violently, that some bodies have more value than others.
Disney movies perpetuated a host of problematic views and ‘ideals’ in subtle ways inconceivable to a young mind.
“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”
Have some soup -- it’ll make you feel a bit better along the way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
President Price issued a statement about the events of January 6th in Washington. As a holder of a Duke degree and long-time employee, I find this statement sorely lacking.
Duke has not merely an opportunity to tell a wider, more diverse story of its origins, but to tell a story that will guide it into its second century.
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?
Duke University, like other historically white colleges and universities, came late to desegregation. Although moral considerations played a role, the primary concern was money.
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.
Part 2 of our Discrimination episode presents discrimination as a nuanced problem, delving a bit further into the issue on campus and discussing potential solutions as outlined by the Duke community.
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.
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.
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.
