Poems on Struggles within Education

just another student

Poems on Student Struggles within Education

by: Aidan Satuito

Geez. Why do I have to pay so much for an education. Why do I have to pay thousands of…

How to Solve All (Most) of Society’s Problems; Hegelian Recognition and The Jewish Question

Why skateboarding is banned at UCSC, and how this problem shows the bigger issue with liability in our legal system

Music As Protest: How the Song “Three Turtles” Came to Lead a Revolution

Adversity of Gen Z Youth

For my final project, I focused on displaying the progression of Generation Z, Youth born in the years between 1997…

The Perfect Failure

A short story about a young lesbian girl coming to grips with her own sexuality, and growing up in an unaccepting environment.

The promised girl, the one who would finally bring my parents the joy and happiness that they had always hoped for was finally born. On a…

An open letter to my 12-year-old self

For Nina, 2014:

First and foremost, you were right. I’m not sure how, but at twelve, tumultuous age that it was, you were solidly, unwaveringly sure that you were queer. I wish I could say this lasted longer, maybe forever even, but…

What I want

I am a Muslim. I am currently living in the United States. I am in outrage.

Why am I outraged? Look no further then what is happening in China. There are many people in the United States as well as other countries that may not know what is going on in China, so let me be the first…

The Dangers of Walking Alone as a Woman

I will be talking about a really sensitive but important topic that I believe we should…

“Power, Power, not Around”

When dealing with the idea of power, there is often this idea that power is somehow this unavoidable thing in the world — as if the idea is somehow an objective absolute. In his talk “Why Ordinary People Need to Understand Power,” Eric Liu characterizes power as something that…