There should be no ‘right’ way to be an immigrant in order to enter into the United States — During the immigration section on the second night of the July Democratic presidential debates, candidate Andrew Yang, a tech entrepreneur and a graduate of Phillips Exeter, Brown University, and Columbia Law School, said, “My father immigrated here as a graduate student and generated over 60 U.S. patents for GE and…

There are many Americans who cognitively operate under the just-world fallacy, the tendency of humans to believe that good people will be rewarded and bad people will be punished. We are lead to believe that the fruits of devoted effort and hard work will be recognized, which unfortunately is not…

TW: Mentions of suicide and mass shooting* I would like to claim that I became a feminist when I first spilled my blood, my underwear stained in a vibrant red shade of young womanhood and social stigma, but my initiation into the feminist fold happened as a result of other…

While here in the United States the fate of Roe v Wade hangs in precarious balance as Americans wait for the Senate’s vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the majority Catholic nation of Argentina has faced a major blow in securing abortion rights and ultimately, women’s rights. On August…

1. From womanish. (Opp. of “girlish,” i.e. frivolous, irresponsible, not serious.) A black feminist or feminist of color. From the black folk expression of mothers to female children, “you acting womanish,” i.e., like a woman. Usually referring to outrageous, audacious, courageous or willful behavior. Wanting to know more and in…

On July 13, Christian Science Monitor published some exciting and empowering news: breastfeeding in public has now become legal in all fifty states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Stragglers Idaho and Utah were the final two states to approve the law. This legislation comes as a…

This post reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily those of PERIOD. I first realized that I had boobs during a Spirit Week capture the flag game in the third grade. I was standing on the end line of my school’s tiny gymnasium, wearing my favorite shirt at…

It’s the Grand National Debate Tournament in Washington, D.C. Exhausted from walking around in the humid D.C. heat, my roommates and I are sitting in our hotel room, ruminating over what to do. Someone mentions that our hotel has a pool. “I can’t go swimming right now. I’m on my…