Category: Articles
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BREAKING DOWN BOUNDARIES: From Loving to Hating K-pop
I am a member of BTS’s fandom, ARMY. I am happy listening to their songs, watching their videos and live-streams, and experiencing their concerts. They have made me brighter in so many aspects of my life. But the fact that I am still afraid to openly say that I listen to Kpop is smothering. Why must people hate other people simply because of the music they listen to? Why do I get side glanced and ostracized simply for enjoying a specific genre of music that makes me happy? Be open to new experiences. Be tolerant of other cultures. Be accepting of people who are different from you. Music transcends language. Music can bring people together. Open your mind to something new and that moment may be serendipitous.
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Online Mourning and Grief for a Celebrity’s Passing
When I first heard about the disappearance of Naya Rivera, I couldn’t react. I just parked the thought at the back of my mind and checked the news from time to time hoping to hear something from her. It didn’t feel real, not when just two days before I had been re-watching her visit to Kevin McHale and Jenna Ushkowitz’s podcast alongside Heather Morris. Not when I had been working out to my “GLEE FAVOURITES” playlist that same morning. But it was very real. Yesterday, I was out with some friends when I got a Twitter notification that a body had been found and that it had been concluded it was Naya’s. I didn’t know how to react. Was I in my right to cry or to feel the need for mourning a person I never met? Was it okay for me not only to feel saddened but devastated by the death of a person I didn’t really know personally?
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Dissecting The Model Minority Myth
The model minority myth perpetuates this by making Asian Americans seem like we are the perfect minority. It generalizes us as law-abiding geniuses that achieve higher levels of success than all other minority groups, which ultimately makes us pitted against each other. Article by Evie Fitzpatrick
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THE NEW NORMAL: Everyday Steps we can Take to Combat Racism
There is no room to write off the movement as short-lived when police departments have yet to be fully defunded or abolished, murderers are still walking free masked as cops, and Black people continue to be murdered because of the color of their skin. Black Lives Matter as a whole is our “new normal.”
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Voter Textbanking Resources
Sign up for textbanking to increase voter registration and voter turnout. This year of elections will decide the fate of many social issues we encounter daily. Although much of Gen Z is too young to vote, we can still push to make a change and spread these much needed resources out into the general population.
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PUSHING THROUGH A CRISIS – 4 LESSONS FROM REFUGEES
ARTICLE BY CASSIDY MURRAY This teenage refugee advocate, humanitarian, international speaker, and world traveler shares four lessons she learned from refugees on how to push through a crisis. Cassidy is also the Director at HumanityUp, Co-Founder of Changemaker Odyssey, and the Co-Founder of Kids Unite4Hope.
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