Letter to the editor: you’re wrong about the Rittenhouse trial
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Wellesley’s COVID-19 policies ignore mass vaccination
My big concern with Wellesley College’s pandemic policy is simple: to put in place this many COVID-19 restrictions at a…
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Asian Americans’ appropriation of AAVE has to stop
On Feb. 5, rapper-turned-actress Awkwafina, aka Nora Lum, posted a series of screenshots of text written in the Apple Notes…
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A love letter to heartbreak
Hot tears sear your eyes, and you try desperately to swallow the knot that’s been stuck in your throat for…
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Oregon decriminalized drugs — and so should we
A little over a year ago, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize personal-use drug possession. Measure 110 makes the…
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Why I’m done with desirability politics
On Jan. 25, Netflix’s YouTube channel released a trailer for Netflix Golden, a new social media channel promoting stories from…
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Disabled people dying from COVID-19 isn’t encouraging
“The overwhelming number of [COVID] deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities, so, really, these…
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Academic writing is gratuitously labyrinthine
The gratuitous complication of scholastic writing impedes academics from absorbing any and all useful takeaways, particularly when faced with a…
Read MoreWellesley’s erasure of Indian Muslims
I am an Indian American Muslim. I am one of four Indian Muslims or Indian American Muslims (that I know…
Read MoreRittenhouse acquittal: clemency for white vigilantes
Kyle Rittenhouse is unfortunately a name we’ve seen plenty of in our newsfeeds these past weeks. Last year, Rittenhouse, who…
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