An Overview of the Systemic Discrimination against African Americans
What do we associate with African-Americans? Drugs? Gang violence? Petty theft? This association is called stereotyping. Stereotyping: The association of certain attributes, mostly negative, to a certain community with no logical backup. Narcotics is bad, but narcotics is abused at…
Slavery: How History Set the Stage for the Oppression of African Americans
Imagine waking up one day and not finding your father home. You go to school thinking he’s already left for work. You come home. You play around until late. Then you realize, he might never be home again. Among people…
The Right and Wrong Ways of Businesses Doing Political Activism
When a company is established, it takes on a persona of its own in the view of the public. Every choice of wording, every commercial, every social media post is carefully curated to convey a message. Essentially, people will judge…
George Floyd’s Death Sparks Outrage and Protest Across the United States
A pandemic is evidently not enough to stop racism and violence. On May 25, 46-year-old Black man, George Floyd, was suspected of using a counterfeit $20 bill in a transaction at Cup Foods. White officer, Derek Chauvin, forced Floyd to…
Why We Need Better Female Representation in Video Games
If we look at women in past video game history, women have not gotten the respect they deserve until now. In order to sell games and appeal to the largely male straight market, women are drawn disproportionately with nonexistent waists,…
What You Should (and Shouldn’t Do) After Having Your Intimate Photos Leaked
If you have had your intimate photos leaked, you have already gone through a whirlwind of emotions. Once the dust settles down and you have to move on with your life, you have to be careful that you don’t carry…
India’s Citizenship Amendment Bill: States and universities in protest
On 11th December, India’s Rajya Sabha passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. The Act is directed towards providing Indian citizenship to minorities such as Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh. Anyone belonging to these minorities…
Why Leaking Intimate Photos is Still a Thing: The Vicious Culture of Victim Blaming
With the #MeToo movement finally having brought few changes in the minds of the more liberal patriarchs, it finally is nice to see some kind of positive reform. However, one issue that mostly remains unaddressed is online sexual violence. This…
How the Joker Became the Face of Protests around the World
When Joker first arrived in theaters, there was significant outcry about the character possibly inspiring disturbed individuals to carry out violence. There was precedent for this, too:in Aurora, a lone gunman shot several people during a 2012 screening of the…
Those Who Leak Intimate Photos (and Why They Do So)
Let’s make some clear distinctions to start things off. Nudes: By nudes we mean any and all form of intimate photos, regardless of how much skin revealed, that have been shown/leaked/exposed to someone else without the consent of the person…
