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The modern media landscape is constantly evolving, and streaming and the internet have ushered in a rise in podcasting which…
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On the anniversary of the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment,instated one year ago on April 25, students observed a heavy increase…
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you heard it here first—we "cannot emotionally accept" your dirty, foul money, the history of your military enslavement still reeks…
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I’m getting older, but my favorite genre is coming-of-age. What happens when the coming-of-age has….arrived?
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If you are able, please see female rappers live, not just in your car or at a pregame; their artistry…
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As Los Angeles prepares to host the 2028 Olympics, nearby unhoused communities face mounting uncertainty.
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They are not performers really. It comes out naturally. Like living through feel, they flow. To produce and then live…
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Corinne Bailey Rae’s performance at the Novo was an impressive display of emotion, genre-bending, and political awareness.
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“By [positioning] the Prime Directive’s ethical implications as a crucial plot point of many Star Trek episodes, the franchise also…
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This framing of plastic surgery is a ploy to make these cosmetic alterations increasingly marketable and acceptable — even encouraged…
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And so nostalgia forms a bubble around my brain, because history does not feel concise
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What Trump’s outlandish debate-stage comments imply for Haitian-Americans and immigrants as a whole over the course of his administration.
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“There’s also the issue of speed versus depth. The internet makes activism fast. A viral post can educate thousands in…
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February 13’s student protest against UCLA’s suspension of the student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine, and the greater ongoing…
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The attack on Section 504 is a reminder to bring disabilities and d/Deafness into our day-to-day conversations. It is a…
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These pressures have forced many LGBTQIA+ South Asian folks to lead double lives, only living authentically when they achieve financial…
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An incel is not born, he is made.
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Beware: Spoilers abound for this 100-year-old story, especially Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” (2024)
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Discostan is a radical multimedia collective that supersedes the boundaries of nationality by enabling people to build a community around…
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If seeing is believing, then to bear witness is to believe in something more.
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Miguk, you Master Manipulator/ Your strategically curated narrative/ Is the Lethe of our people
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“It almost felt like we were wandering amidst a graveyard. The large houses may as well have been tombstones, to…
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She narrows her eyes at the photo, tries to make herself out in the blurry-sticky-sweaty mess of reflections but all…
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Sean Baker's newest Palme d’Or winning film, “Anora,” was enthralling, relatable, and humorous, but was not a Cinderella story.
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Rather than reducing these women into empty archetypes, David graces them with depth, curiosity, vigor, and bravery as they navigate…
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The collective shock at UCLA and in liberal spaces failed to recognize that the academia-centered illusion we live in is…
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How can I balance being an academic weapon while also being the life of the party?
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“cunning embers still dance on your grave, relentless, carving ground and kissing dripping amber skies with tongue”
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“If you missed out on this year’s WACsmash show, be sure to mark your calendar for next year.”
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11.8 million dollar gross. Winner of the Audience Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival. The closing night film at…
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Time for sex talk. Everyone huddles in a tight circle, hungry hyenas laughing at low-hanging jokes while salivating at the…
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When the sun shines the day's eye blinds you./Blue-black violet blood/The night, lies behind you.
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"A majority of Americans have misguided views of unhoused communities, ranging from neglect to cruel dehumanization. This is not a…
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“With exacting, biting examination of each character’s thought processes, Catton lays bare each of the hypocrisies and false-truths they tell…
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“We’ve all felt it: the dopamine of each TikTok hitting us again and again, almost immediately followed by the enthusiasm…
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Us being left alone is not something of desire or frequency; cook and clean and clean and cook and stand…
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And I'll never understand why I attract those like your kind. Maybe it's because my mother hasn't said she’s sorry…
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The established immutability of the carceral system in the American psyche has made it increasingly difficult for people to imagine…
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"For young women and femme-presenting people who begin to gain weight in college, the stigma surrounding fatness can significantly impact…
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“One of the telltale signs of when a Resident was almost ready to be released was when she had nurtured…
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"Sex can also feel like theft, it can force us to confront ourselves in ways we tend to ignore within…
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"What drew me to the act of reading was the tactile sensation of holding a book in my hands and…
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"Even if these offhand comments are made with pure intentions, they reinforce the negative stigma around sex work and harm…
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"Across periods of time, enemies to lovers contrives in romantic love a dangerously transcendental power— one which eclipses economic, racial,…
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"While she does appear to shed certain aspects of her identity in order to better assimilate in her new life,…
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As if it sensed with mythic powers our midterm anxiety, the Powell Reading Room (PRR) has reopened to the public…
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Today, While My Guitar Gently Weeps came on as I shuffled music while walking to class, and for the first…
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"First Light" comprises mornings in UCLA’s Palestine Solidarity Encampment. Included are images of police detaining a protester for protecting the…
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"How is a plea of righteous anger / ‘gainst the profiteering off / persecution / met with batons the lengths…
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"we skirmish like kettled dogs, / armed to the k9 teeth with plywood, / soft hands and bodies. smiling at…
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I was at the encampment last Thursday, when an organized team rolled out its initial barriers before dawn and planted…
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Hold the line, she hears, shouted over the din, and it’s automatic, reflexive, she slots herself into place, feels the…
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"Our campus, their war ground" is a digital rendering capturing the poignant moment of an encampment organizer praying in front…
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The encampment at UCLA was one of the most beautiful embodiments of community and efforts of world-making that I have…
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"Resistance" is a collection of photos I took throughout the life of the UCLA pro-Palestine encampment. My goal initially was…
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"the youth" is an oil painting by an anonymous UCLA art student. This piece focuses on Palestinian youth as the…
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"On this evening’s news, you narrated to us / a real lesson on the ins and outs / of the American /…
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"an array of lost ghosts and closet monsters / that gather strangely before my attentiveness / I speak to them,…
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"How does a person go from a stranger to someone you can’t live without? You didn’t feel like a stranger,…
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Purses are a drooping heaviness, collected with age.
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"A sinister grin, / that I failed to see before. / Weren’t you going to lead me to paradise?"
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The U.S.’ ruthless pursuit of hegemony is encapsulated in Chiquita’s 100 year long pursuit of corporatocracy in the banana republic…
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"in our low-lit world, it was barely visible / and yet visibly bare"
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The “white boy of the month:” a rotating selection of conventionally attractive and “ugly hot” white celebrities who are thrust…
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They are his, his, his just like I am still his, his, his.
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As it stands, the Women in STEM movement has perpetuated harmful social expectations for women by shaming them for pursuing…
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Since its inception, the term has been flattened and defanged, turned into nothing but a new kind of misogyny with…
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As so many Palestinian Americans grieve their homeland, their loved ones, and this destruction of their culture. As we, members…
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"I can still hear her faint cries. Will she be okay?"
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Through its energetic highs and solemn lows, Page’s performance brings the audience together in a celebration of trans resistance and…
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On the morning of November 15, communicating with a sea of faces perched neatly within miniscule Zoom rectangles, Dr. Elyse…
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It was a horribly embarrassing, slipped-into delusion, such that I would worry anxiously for the day you might be somehow…
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“The coalition’s work is based on the maxim “work local, think global.” The group’s global mission — societal liberation from…
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Endowments for schools like UCLA are, in the long run, only growing — but their spending has not kept pace,…
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You never told me how hard it would be, Barbie, to stop things once they’ve started.
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Attempts to unfasten her mouth expose remains of her flesh, bound together.
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let the rope on my neck be this current's tether strung through fertile tides curled in tempest air of anxiety…
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Whether it be medical or non-medical care, in a professional setting or a social one, someone at UCLA is ready…
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By stripping off the layers of smothering clothing and logos made by our institution, a notoriously “serious school” whose departments,…
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The program concluded with parting words from Francis who urged inspired students to see past the “fear of coming up…
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It is much easier to manipulate the borders of a region, implant satellite states, and repeatedly bomb Middle East nations…
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Black mothers deserve to have a space where they feel respected, cared for, listened to, and valued as they embark…
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"somewhere, in the encumbered air before me is a pair of eyes they mount no body, but I know they…
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We are all borne of each other from the pulsating womb that is mother’s land —
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the language eroded in my mouth/and i swallowed dust.
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Being an informed tenant will make your life easier and protect you from housing violations and possible disputes, and in…
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Through my work perusing the semantics of Title IX policies for places where I could advise an edit or seek…
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With a looming recession and health disparities increasing by the minute, American public health cannot withstand another critical blow. If…
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Since the EARN! Referendum called for support of the BBRC, its failure to pass indicates a tendency for piecemeal reform…
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I let the silence boil as I pick mismatched graphic tees off of colorful plastic hangers, imagining this is a…
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Im going to spoil.
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The Three Strikes Law was enacted in California in 1994 in response to rising crime rates and aimed to imprison…
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In the aftermath of recent climate change disasters, many people question whether future disasters can be prevented and if climate…
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Bona to vada your dolly old eek!
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The basic steps all undergraduate students can take are respecting the picket line by not attending discussion sections (even if…
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“I wanted to tell people how I became this woman with razor blades between her teeth.”
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The main premise of Islam rests on the significance of freedom, intention, and choice. Iran cannot logically force wearing a…
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AR-15s are not a rational threat to a government with F-35s, aircraft carriers, and a multi-trillion-dollar nuclear arsenal. They are…
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We mourn the loss of boots and also the loss of accountability for substandard business actions.
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As 10 million Europeans sat in front of their televisions on Saturday night, May 15th, a screen of blue and…
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The latest social media trend is finally creating space for straight white men like us to be heard. Tiktok and…
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Through the creative derivation of and active adaptation to censorship, feminist netizens in China generate enormous power which attests to…
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From the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” to the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” 2022 has seen an overwhelming increase in state…
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Sweep and wipe and hunger. Sing yourself into a special little frenzy.
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like a babe the little cup of tea is cradled sugar sipped and crimped and sampled
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Mejia reveals a unique talent for bridging the gap between big data and normal people, based on his firm belief…
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Butterfly: a beautiful, exotic, delicate, docile, innocent, sexual, and submissive East Asian “woman”. She’s everything a man could desire in…
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“Your generation has the most to benefit from a city watchdog, especially when it comes to issues like the environment.…
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“A few of the boys in my CS class have offered to help me with this problem set, but I…
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There is you. And nothing more.
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My conscious streams A foggy contradiction Sweaty palms on the floors, knees half crouched towards the ground
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While the Hijra and transgender communities have contributed to the LGBTQ+ movement in South Asia through their lived histories and…
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We are now witnessing a new, modern surge of feminine misery across social media. This phenomenon has been dubbed “dissociative…
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For a state that boasts of its progress in gender equality, it is startling to see Israel’s continued violations of…
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I spent today trying to figure out if you’re genuinely narcissistic or just really insecure and trying to cover it…
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Her mother was always warning her to stay clear of vampires or other malevolent spirits, and sending her off to…
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Whilst both Ireen Wüst and Timothy LeDuc belong to the LGBTQ+ community, they use their Olympic platform for advocacy in…
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YOU* are gorgeous.
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“Haldi ka doodh is now the golden milk latte mix sold on Amazon by Kirstens and Emilys without a trace…
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I learned to tattoo because I wanted to hate myself less.
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“Helman slept like a child, warm and sloppy in his white cotton boxer shorts. The comforter was pushed to the…
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“Storytelling is a place where people learn”
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I don’t know how to explain evil in my own terms. In my political theory lectures, it’s anything that strays…
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The Southwest Asian and North African identities are conveniently pushed and pulled between white and brown and manipulated in order…
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Removing unwanted body hair isn’t pretty — but Eurocentric beauty standards make the process feel worth it.
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Sara Ahmed is a British-Australian author who describes herself as a “feminist killjoy, affect alien, [and] angry queer woman of…
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Rumor has it I was the only person present at my birth. I was supposed to be born 10 days…
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Guns are tools that protect masculine fragility and actively target women.
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In 1851, Sojourner Truth asked, “Ain’t I a woman?” Ever since race was conceptualized, Black women have wondered what makes…
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Misinformation and American ideals of patriotism have contributed to the debate over the teaching of critical race theory in K-12…
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I cannot/destroy myself/unconditionally
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“There’s plenty we’ve missed because the world began to end,” I say. “Why this?” She purses her lips and and…
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All of a sudden, I was learning about hands on waists and running from cops in black bikini tops, keeping…
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“If they’re going to try and evict us, I’m not going to make it easy. I’m not going to just…
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One of the newest organizations on campus has big goals and a gap to fill.
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If I have to listen to another person say “You’re so lucky to have big boobs! Give me some!”, I’m…
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Image credits: Screenshot of The Washington Post’s video of comfort women footage taken and edited by Ashley Leung.Image Description: Six…
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Image Description: Several students and UC-AFT members gather on Bruin Walk. One UC-AFT member, wearing a blue t-shirt, is holding…
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“No one should have to worry for their life during a lecture”
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I wish I could say that in the 15 years since “H2O” was released, the state of representation for Black…
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“The recently proposed hijab ban is blatant proof that the French government is diseased.”
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How can someone represent a country that has never represented their people?
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We can not dismantle oppression if we will not admit, or are even aware, that it exists in the first…
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I knew that I could never be myself around a white girl because of the constant fear of offending one…
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If your art only has value by demoralizing or demeaning others (specifically other women), I recommend keeping it in the…
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Quarantine has left a lot of us unmotivated, and I know for me this feeling can be soul-crushing. One thing…
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International, national, and local actors must consider models of care to strive towards health as a human right and universal…
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FEM FINDS, FEM’s story series via FEM’s Instagram, gives a glimpse into the media FEM Members are consuming and loving…
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The paradox of the automobile is that it symbolizes American freedom while fundamentally expanding the nature of police work, thus…
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Surviving within academia isn’t enough — students should be able to thrive.
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Audre Lorde was a Black poet, feminist, and activist who wrote and spoke powerfully about race, gender, sexuality, and class.
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Joe Biden may have won the election with a bright smile and promise to return to a cordial presidential past,…
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By understanding the origins of the gender binary as a tool of oppression, we can more clearly see the ways…
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These statistics prove that there is an epidemic of violence against Indigenous women that urgently needs to be addressed. Yet,…
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As women now recounting the years of religious indoctrination that happened at the hands of religious education, we are now…
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Boba are the tapioca pearls that float at the bottom of sugary and milky teas. This beverage is sweet and…
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While large corporations label themselves as “green,” people, communities, and ecosystems are suffering.
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While the Biden-Harris team has yet to usher in stimulus checks or effective vaccine rollout, they have fulfilled their pop…
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With India’s interests shifting, defense budget increase, and history of minority oppression through massacre and genocide, it seems evident that…
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The issue with the lack of empathy in individualistic societies is especially apparent now.
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“And, you know, the best work that all of us can do is to create the terrain for a new…
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Sometimes, it might be better for the dead to just stay dead in comics.
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Particularly in academia, we are told that higher education is the only way to gain concrete understanding of a topic,…
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If you’ve found yourself either wanting a light-hearted dose of LGBTQ+ rep mixed in with that sweet, sweet, nostalgia of…
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Millions across Nigeria have mobilized in demonstrations to #EndSARS, a movement aiming to end the abuses of the nation's notorious…
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Sikhs are far from being victims to this struggle; suppressed for the last 36 years, this community of lions has…
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America has always had a glass ceiling for women in professional wrestling, a glass ceiling that Japanese women wrestlers have…
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FEM FINDS, FEM’s story series via FEM’s Instagram, gives a glimpse into the media FEM Members are consuming and loving…
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Styles has received much attention and support from Western media in his expression of gender fluid style. In being the…
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The gender gap in mathematics is closing. And, no, it’s not because girls today are growing larger brains.
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For all the praise “Happiest Season” has earned for queer representation, however, the film is also a frustrating reminder that…
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Sometimes I wish I had married a beautiful woman. Does this make me a scumbag? I was close once.
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Fashion trends need to stop ripping off communities of color without recognition and proclaiming white inventiveness.
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FEM FINDS, FEM’s story series via FEM’s Instagram, gives a glimpse into the media FEM Members are consuming and loving…
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October 18 marked the landslide victory of Luis Arce in the Bolivian presidential election of 2020. The election of Arce…
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Though it bears the familiar Marvel Studios logo, "WandaVision" is a sci-fi show all the same. Anything that looks or…
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Your outrage is not more important than the outrageous.
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Elites weaponize identity politics to offer us the appearance of progress without the meaningful policy required to improve the lives…
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Being gay is a complicated mess of a sexual orientation, and there is no way to come out without being…
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Right now we’re in rocking chairs / Under the eaves of a winter that’s long outstayed its welcome and I’m…
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The film and its characters are self-aware about the misogyny in the “manic pixie dream girl” trope due to the…
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This inherent selfishness and sole desire of self-preservation above all else is a distinctly white supremacist notion, one adopted and…
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Just after the centennial anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, the indigenous Armenians of the Caucasus face yet another…
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Quarantine has the potential to allow for greater exploration of one’s gender expression and identity. The lack of in-person social…
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FEM FINDS, FEM’s brand new story series via FEM’s Instagram, gives a glimpse into the media FEM Members are consuming…
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Design by Shannon Boland Image Description: Inverted mirror images of former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard over background of orange and…
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Since the gym is typically associated with intimidating weight rooms full of buff finance bros, seeing a fearless woman taking…
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FEM's list of relief efforts and resources. We will update it regularly.
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As a newsmagazine that operates with anti-racism at its center, it is imperative that we speak about George Floyd’s murder…
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FEM’s mission for 46 years has been to push the conversation forward regarding the experiences of marginalized people such as…
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Design by Nicole Nobre What do you think of when you hear the word ‘diet’? While the term might have…
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As a feminist and ex-tomboy, I often think about how my expression of gender has evolved over the course of…
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False gender neutrality only serves to benefit those at the top as long as power is distributed unequally.
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Heteronormative society ingrains the prejudice or dislike of people who are ‘different.’ Due to gender roles within heteronormativity, it is…
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Within the world of social media, the scrutiny we place on individuals' choices alienates people who aren’t able to be…
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Fawn McKay Brodie (1915-1981) was one of the first women to become a tenured professor at UCLA, a controversial biographer,…
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Diets are replaced by detoxes or lifestyle changes; instead of weigh-in meetings, WW customers now attend “Wellness Workshops.” But underneath…
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Biblical womanhood positions us as modern-day Atlases, holding the world on our backs.
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Ultimately, I am not in the psych ward to find all the answers to my questions, and certainly not to…
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FEM Newsmagazine would like to officially reaffirm and elaborate upon our withdrawal of the endorsement. As the campus’s first and…
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