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  The summer after my junior year of high school, I wrote a personal essay titled “Big Shoes to Fill.” It was just raw enough to call my own and polished enough to actually call a personal essay. Here’s how it started:    When I was six, my friends and I would meet once a week to reenact the whole plot of Cinderella with alarming detail. We played at the front steps of a friend’s house that, to our young minds, looked exactly like the castle steps in the movie. We wore blankets aroun...

  Most women have a moment of realization when they realize their bodies do not belong to them.   For me, it was the first time I was touched in a way I didn’t want to be. I was in high school, intoxicated and exhausted, sitting on the floor of a basement. The only thing I remembered the next day was the fact that a friend ran his hands down my back and fiddled with my bra, and I could do nothing to stop him. My friend and I were watching the Netflix reality show Too Hot to Handle when th...

Content Warning: This article mentions sexual assault.  It is hot and sweaty in the dish pit of a Montreal restaurant. The sounds are cacophonous and the air is grimy with food waste and dissonance. Outside, layers of fresh snow coat icy sludge, illuminating the raucous night. The frigid breeze freezes the capitalist sweat on your neck. This place and the feeling it evokes capture the essence of the Canadian post-punk band Dish Pit. Each song on the eclectic three-person unit’s first album ...

Content Warning: This article discusses sexual assault and harassment. Survivors of campus sexual violence are not lifeless statistics. They are real people whose lives were disrupted by a dehumanizing violation. The harm that this violence causes is irreparable, and unfortunately, too many students at Georgetown University can testify to this reality. There should be a transparent system in place to support students in the aftermath of sexual violence, but there is not.  To make a useful syst...

Oklahoma’s Lady Tigers are taking the fight against racism to the court—and their community   They aren’t pro athletes aglow on a field surrounded by cameras. They aren’t NCAA champions or national stars shipping off to an international tournament. They are just 14 high school women’s basketball players who took a knee during the national anthem.  They are a model for the future of racial and social justice in sports.  On March 11, Norman High School’s women’s basketball tea...

Former NFL player Phillip Adams shoots dead 5 people in South Carolina before killing himself The 32-year-old player, Phillip Adams, shot dead a prominent doctor, his wife, their two grandchildren and another man who was at the time working at the couples residence Written By Former NFL player Phillip Adams shoots dead 5 people in South Carolina before killing himself. Content Warning  Leaving all of South Carolina and much of US in a deep state of shock, former NFL prof...

Fear, Anger, Hatred: The Problem of Toxic Masculinity Fear, Anger, Hatred: The Problem of Toxic Masculinity The phrase ‘ Toxic Masculinity‘ draws a variety of reactions. For some, it is a fiction – something recently dreamt up by sectors of the transatlantic intelligentsia. For others, it is a blight on society – a roadblock on the route to gender equality, and a pernicious influence on men.  A survey from last year, using data collected by Yougov, suggested that around 12 million...

Meet Tulliah, who throws big emotional punches while wrapped in velvet gloves. We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. “While Dean and I were listening back to the first demos at the start of the process of making this EP, Dean [Tuza, producer] said that it feels like someone is giving you a fresh hug,”  Tulliah told Music Junkee recently. “Which is why we decided to name the EP that. I want people to feel...

May 25, 2016 The way things are going, the administrators will probably go along with it. From National Review: Student activists at Oberlin College are saying how frustrated they are that the school is making it so tough for them to be on campus — and that it’s so unfair that the school won’t heed their demands for how to make it easier on them. Now, in case you forgot, Oberlin made headlines in December when student activists started demanding $8.20 per hour for protesting. That was pr...

Content Warning: Sexual assault On Wednesday, Mar. 10, University President Rev. Peter M. Donohue, O.S.A., Ph.D. and the University’s Student Government Association hosted a Town Hall to address the sexual misconduct that has recently occurred on campus. Panel guests included Ryan Rost, Title IX Coordinator, Chief David Tedjeske, Director of Public Safety and Chief of Police, Stacey Andes, Director of Health Promotion and a Sexual Assault Resource Coordinator (SARC) and Amanda Rappa, Stude...