Among the many devastating effects of the novel Coronavirus are the xenophobia and anti-Chinese racism it has fueled around the world.
Author: Lily Borak
OPINION: Ted Bundy biopics romanticize violence against women
Media like “Conversations With a Killer” and “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” only perpetuate and romanticize violence against women.
OPINION: Edit and Delete: How Standard English grammar promotes silence
Things that make my skin crawl: nails on a chalkboard, loud gum-chewing, and hearing someone say “less” when they really should have said “fewer.” With a former English professor for a mother, my latter pet peeve makes sense; ‘proper’ grammar has always come easily and been important to me. As
OPINION: Hungry for change: How dining hall labels fail students
A glimpse of hell: Malott dining hall, 12:15 p.m., Monday through Thursday. Neither quiz nor test nor final exam can match the stress of pushing through the ravenous lunch mob in pursuit of a Beyond Burger — and the defeat of not finding one there. Barely 5-feet-2-inches and often on
Opinion: Anger, arrogance, and the absence of accountability: Why Kavanaugh’s demeanor was unsurprising but still not appropriate
CW: sexual assault The Kavanaugh hearing was viscerally upsetting to watch. While Christine Blasey Ford remained calm before a nation ready to doubt and disprove, Brett Kavanaugh exhibited the boiling belligerence of a man realizing his thick-walled privilege may not protect him this time. As a woman in Trump’s America,
Opinion: Beneath the Face Mask, Self-Care has Public, Political Power
A bubble bath, a vanilla-lavender candle, and a face mask. Or perhaps a yoga class followed by a trip to the nearest Starbucks (what is pumpkin-spice but the purest form of nourishment to the soul?) Ah, yes. Self-care. Notably, self-care dates back to roots more deeply connected to the worlds
Opinion: Textbook sexism creates misinformed doctors
Science textbooks — bereft of diversity and gender neutrality — use androcentric facts and figures that restrict physicians from understanding how to accurately diagnose and appropriately treat non-male patients. As a result, women and people of color are often misdiagnosed, mistreated, or simply not treated at all, which in extreme