Advocacy
The Nasty Woman in the Woods
You will be asked one question when your house drops in Oz.
“Are you a good witch or a bad witch?”
Witches’ allegiances are straightforward in The Wizard of Oz (1939). It’s safe to assume that green-faced women commanding monkey armies will steal your shoes and kill your dog, while human Peeps who travel in pink bubbles and sing to munchkins will, well, not. Every child knows “only bad witches are ugly.”
The Oral History of Jaronda Miller-Bryant
As I begin my journey into womanhood, I find things such as starting a family crossing my mind more and more. I think: When do I want to start having children? How many do I want? How much time does that give me to plan my own life and career?
Literacy, Learning, & Light: How The Citizen Foundation is Working to Bridge Gaps in Pakistan
“In our society, those who are educated sit on chairs and those who aren’t sit on the floor.”
The Work We've Been Trained to Do
The process of “becoming” is not linear, or isolated, or even Insta-worthy.
Heart of Darkness
Trigger Warning: Explicit Language
I noticed the word on the board before anything else. I stared at it. It stared back at me. I looked around to see if anyone shared my reaction. I squinted my eyes to study the font. Did he type that out or was it copied and pasted? If he typed it – does that mean he would say it?
Was It Me or Was This Black History Month...Different?
And... just like that February came and went. The month of love. The last month of winter and— oh yeah did I mention Black History Month? A month when we spend 28 long, delicate days dedicating every single minute, of every single hour to the figures and movements of the past, present and future that celebrate black culture.
The Black Survivor's Guide Volume I: How to be a Striving Artist in White Spaces
Rule #1: Do not deny yourself the actual human emotion of being nervous. That’s ok. Chances are, the only reason you are nervous is because you’re creating something “unconventional.” Remember that your race and your stories do not make you unconventional.
Rule #2: With that said, do not show that you are too nervous. Don’t give them any excuse to pity you or your work.
In Conversation with Dr. Jensen Montambault
When Jensen Montambault was an undergraduate at UVA, she chose to divide her time between two disparate fields of study--Environmental Science and English Literature. She went on to obtain a doctorate in Interdisciplinary Ecology and has since written extensively about climate change and its impact on modern societies.
Order Me a Burrito With Extra Guilt
I was eating at Chick-fil-A with my mom when she asked me if I felt loved.
A Departure from the Traditional Good Ol' Song in the Spirit of the University of Virginia
The Good Old song of Wa-hoo-wa
We’ll sing it o’er and o’er,
But never did they tell us of
The years of pain and gore.
We desecrated tombs and graves
To mock and thea’trize horr’r,
We brutalized black bo-odies