Walmart by Tina

is my least favorite store on earth. The lighting ghosts my face. The music is nauseating. And all their products remind me of little children bent over their work, thinking themselves lucky that they have this fourteen-hours-a-day job that teases their tiny bellies with not enough food. It’s easy to forget all that when you […]

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Fabric by Demelza

I place fabric over my skin not to cover up but to glorify. I am independent, powerful. I ask not for your attention, nor your comments, but rather that you respect my fabric and its contents. You may look but not touch, for a landscape should remain uncultivated until it is ready for such. I […]

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Introdcing Safetipin: The Indian App That Uses Crowdsourcing to Get Women Home Safely

It’s just a sad fact of life that rape happens all over the world. Even with the campaigns against sexual assault and the constant reminders of obtaining sexual consent, the rate of crimes involving rape are still far from lessening — mostly felt in developing countries. It’s especially appalling and alarming to know that, in India, a […]

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Alex Day Can’t Be Trusted

Some of you may remember the recent Sam Pepper incident and the bright, critical light it shed on sexual abuse in the YouTube community. What you may not know is that this incident is sadly just the tip of the iceberg in a long, sordid history of famous YouTubers and sexual abuse scandals. One incident in particular involves […]

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Was Sam Pepper Really Funny?

If you haven’t heard about the Sam Pepper incident until this very moment, allow me to guide you through it. Sam Pepper is a YouTuber who mainly specializes in “prank” videos. I love a good prank because laughing is great, and I really think our society needs to learn how to laugh a little bit more. But what is the […]

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America’s Campus Rape Epidemic

America has a serious epidemic that’s infected our college campuses, and it’s not an illness; it’s the amount of unresolved and unreported cases of campus rape. In a report recently released by Senator Claire McCaskill (D) of Missouri, it was found that most colleges don’t provide students with any sort of sexual assault training. This means that neither […]

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