Category: Articles
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Turkey’s Withdrawal From the Istanbul Convention — Women and LGBTQ+ People Need Our Help
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan withdrew Turkey from the Istanbul Convention without any parliamentary debate.The Istanbul Convention is a human rights treaty designed to prevent gender-based violence against women and LGBTQ+ members, protect victims and prosecute perpetrators. It aims to uphold their fundamental human right through creating a life free from violence and terror.Leaving the Convention would effectively deprive them of equal legal protections against abuse and violence they face everyday in our societies.
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From One Woman to Another, I Know You May be Feeling Scared Right Now
here is a list of apps, toolkits, tips, and self-defense tactics to hopefully ease your mind when leaving the house – even though we shouldn’t have to. first, it shouldn’t be our responsibility to stay safe – the priority should be on men educating themselves to respect us. However, – we know that now, in this particular time, women may still be hesitant to leave their homes, especially with the tragic passing of Sarah Everard, the staggering statistic of 97%, and the countless attacks on women that we hear about on the news.
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Going Past the Hashtag #StopAsianHate
Honoring the victims and supporting your AAPI friends by Marinel Perez To respect the wishes of their families, Zenerations will not be publishing the names of the victims. Instead, we urge you to donate to their families and other impacted community members, and Asians Americans Advancing Justice. As we honor and say their names, many […]
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Discussing Anti-Asian History and its Societal Effects Today
Educating yourself on anti-Asian imperialism by Sanjna Mizar, Keya Raval, and Ishani Solanki While there has been a significant rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans since the beginning of the pandemic, it’s important to acknowledge that these horrific acts aren’t individual acts of violence, but a result of the extensive history of anti-Asian Imperialism […]
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A Quick Guide to Unlearning & How You Can Unlearn Racist Ideologies.
A wave of online activism sparked by the Black Lives Matter movement in response to police brutality and white supremacy flooded the internet and social media platforms in 2020. Emerging from this wave came educational infographics, blogs, and multimedia on anti-racism, which covered some terminology that became popularized during the movement. The word “unlearning” is one of them, and you may have already frequently heard it from many people online who sought to be better and “educate themselves” on anti-racism. So what exactly does unlearning mean, anyway? WRITTEN BY: Cil
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Do the Grammys Have A Diversity Problem?
The Grammys is an award show which was created by ‘The Recording Academy’’ an American organization of musicians, recording engineers, producers and other recording professionals in 1959. The awards provide a “Grammy,” which recognizes outstanding achievement in mainly the English-language music industry. Although BIPOC artists make up a significantly large majority of the music […]
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Breonna Taylor: A Name to Remember, A Fight that Persists
Nearly a year ago, police took the life of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old woman who worked as an emergency room technician and posted her aspirations on notes around her apartment. Since then, her name has rung through the streets, worldwide and in the U.S., carried by impassioned chants and voices demanding accountability for the officers that killed her. Yet after an arduous year, officers Brett Hankison, Myles Cosgrove, Joshua Jaynes, and Jon Mattingly have yet to be charged for Breonna Taylor’s death. Accountability is far from accomplished and we are once again reminded of the cruel racism that plagues the U.S. “justice” system.
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The Stigma of Quarantine Weight Gain
TW: dieting, eating disorders Society and weight gain has always had a long and unhealthy history. With the pandemic, and the so-called “Quarantine 15,” a spin-off of the “Freshman 15,” the perpetuation of diet culture has only increased. This is very dangerous, as dieting has a direct link to developing eating disorders. A higher use of the internet and social media has also expanded the reach of this issue. There is a detestably large amount of advice articles on the internet that provide tips for how to ‘Lose That Quarantine 15.’ With more activity on social media, there’s been an increase of weight loss pressure, especially with TikTok and other popular social media apps.
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What They Don’t Tell You About The College Application Process | Op-ed
People say that your senior year of high school is supposed to be your easiest, most stress-free, and enjoyable year of all the four years that you spend in high school. And for the most part, that is true. However, they forget to inform you of the fact that the first few months are actually some of the most challenging and stressful months that you will ever experience before entering adulthood. This is largely because those months are filled to the brim with filling out applications, writing essays, recalling all you did your previous years in high school to fit them into a resume and so much more.
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Wandavision: The Mind-Twisting TV show that doesn’t follow the cookie-cutter superhero story formula
In today’s unexpected era of self-isolation, where time doesn’t feel real, where our lives have been flip-turned upside down, it’s almost natural to want a complete escape from reality. Wandavision, the first installment of the fourth phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, helps viewers achieve being immersed into another world – not just literally, but within the actual story itself. The show portrays the title characters, Wanda Maximoff and Vision, doing exactly that – living in a false reality where everything is swimmingly perfect – or so it seems.
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