by admin | Dec 7, 2016 | Featured
Cultural appropriation is when a person of privilege profits from stealing the traditions, beliefs, and practices of oppressed people. The person of privilege often gives little to zero credit to the culture in which they took these ideas from. An example of...
by admin | Dec 1, 2016 | Featured, News
On November 22, 2016, 13-year-old Tyrone Unsworth killed himself after being repeatedly bullied. Tyrone, who is from Australia, was gay. A month prior to taking his own life, he was involved in a brutal fight with another student. The aftermath of the fight...
by admin | Nov 30, 2016 | Featured, News
Since the election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, the LGBTQ+ community has reason to be concerned. For one, just take a look at the people Trump has been considering for his cabinet; they are all notably anti-LGBTQ+. On the...
by admin | Nov 29, 2016 | Featured, News, Women's Rights
Catholicism has a complicated relationship with abortion, and as a result, with the women’s rights movement in general. The Catholic Church considers abortion a “grave sin.” Traditionally, this sin could only be absolved by a bishop, although he could allow a...
by admin | Nov 22, 2016 | Featured, Homophobia
It sounds like an oxymoron, but responding to bigotry with kindness can actually inspire the kind of change you want to see in the world. Case in point: Natalie Elle Woods. Woods made headlines when she decided to pick up the tab for a homophobic family. Woods,...
