OUR BLOG

Calypso Morgan Since Trump came to power, he has begun his project of destroying all the institutions that were holding the United States of America. One of them is the dismantling of all academic and scientific research: firing, cutting funds, freezing funds (Princeton University is suffering frozen funds of 210 million dollars – one of many universities going through the same thing), and censoring the hard work of scholars. You can see the scary pattern of dictatorship seep

Chinmay Khare This short story was selected to be published in the unreleased holiday issue. The December air in the refugee camp was crisp and heavy, not talking but filled with tears and a bittersweet longing for the warmth of homes left behind. Maya is 11 years old. She crouches by her family's makeshift tent, hugging a battered lantern. Spread out around her are dozens of families, all busily preparing for a meagre celebration. It was the Festival of Lights— a tradition h

Hannah Tiernan Suicide is the second leading cause of death for people aged 10 to 34 in The United States. In 2022, more than 49,000 people died by suicide. With World Suicide Prevention day being September 10th, here are the warning signs and a prevention strategies to look out for and utilise. Warning Signs Suicidal ideation, such as talking about or wanting to commit suicide. Exhibiting or expressing feelings of emptiness or hopelessness. Feeling trapped and stifled in the

Hannah Tiernan From the 15th to 19th century, Indigenous peoples of North America faced steady religious discrimination and persecution, perpetrated by European colonists. In May of 1493, Pope Alexander VI issued the Inter Caetera papalbull, which confirmed the native lands claimed by the Kingdom of Spain and mandated the Indigenous peoples be converted to Catholic Christianity. Still to this day, we are seeing a continuous number of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMI

Erika Belen Lim It destroyed Vietnam and now it's destroying towns in Argentina.  I'm talking about glyphosate, an herbicide that is responsible for taking away the lives of thousands of people since the war of Vietnam. Combined with the arsenic, these two chemicals are a hormonal disruptor causing a proliferation of cells and genotoxicity. In the face of greater damage, the probabilities of getting cancer and malformations increase.   From 1962 to 1971 the U.S. military empl

Hannah Tiernan If you haven’t been living under a rock and are present on social media platforms like TikTok, you may have noticed an...

Trisha S. De Castro With Valentine's Day only being a month behind us, it’s important to acknowledge how other people from different...