By Emma Millin As the world’s clashing values and cultures seep into the media that we all consume, online spaces included, it is worth noting the phenomena that repeatedly cycle through these spaces. Things like patriarchal values, racism, and homophobia have been present in many cultures for a very long time, and they inevitably find…
Category: Research
Car Centric Infrastructure, the Advent of Technology, and Its Impact on the Youth
By Vivian Swanson
Let’s Not Be Dramatic Here
By Ava Selby The world is going to end in 4,015 days. If I read a headline like that, I might have an existential crisis and would hope most people would too. Climate scientists have predicted that the Earth’s population will have about 11 years to avoid irreversible damage from man-made carbon emissions (Neuman, 2021)….
Our Nation’s Values
By: Emma Millin Please Note: This essay was written in 2022. In the first three months of 2023 alone, there have been record-setting numbers of anti-queer bills being proposed and passed. This is not going away, and in fact, it’s getting worse. “We respect and preserve religious freedom and values dear to our communities….
A Permanent Love Letter
By Monika Krueger Click on the following link to view the entire zine!
Strength in Destructive Communities: An Analysis of Online Eating Disorder Platforms
By Anne-Claire Edwards First conceptualized in 1983 by political scientist Benedict Anderson, an imagined community is an observance in which individuals perceive themselves to be part of a larger group with shared ideals. These socially constructed communities were initially explored by Anderson as the basis for nationalism, but scholars have applied this idea to a…
Lesbian Vampires and the Complicated Impacts of Queer Coding
By: Emma Millin Have you ever noticed that some villains in media tend to come across as kinda…gay? From Ursula in The Little Mermaid (who was actually based on a drag queen) to Him from The Powerpuff Girls, some villains have always been portrayed as defiant of gender roles and expectations. This association between villainy…
Discomfort Leads to Dissociation
Sexism In The Classroom; How Women Lose The Drive To Learn By Riley Nemes “A woman in her natural habitat,” my history teacher said as he motioned his arms toward his PowerPoint about the 1950s. On the screen was an image of a woman cleaning, one of those vacuum ads that were in the Sunday…