Growing up just outside of Boston and visiting the city frequently, the various ethnic sectors were always apparent to me: Southie had the Irish, the North End housed the Italians, Chinatown was home to the Chinese. These communities provide a sense of belonging to certain ethnicities who say they can embrace their culture. However, they […]
In 2004, transgender and intersex athletes were accepted into the Olympics— but not without public opposition and regulations. In 2015, The IOC (International Olympic Committee) and IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) set the following regulations for female Olympic athletes (Gleaves & Lehrbach 2016): 1. Legal documents of their female gender that cannot be changed […]
Anna O’Shea “The struggle of being caged like an animal 24/7 is enough. But with all the added conditions it’s unbearable. There seems like no escape from this.” –Jamil Hayes (currently incarcerated, letter circa American Prison Writing Archive, 2021) [Pictured above, collaged mask containing quotes from Jamil Hayes and other currently incarcerated people, cited from […]
By interviewing both female and male Air Force Veterans in the late 1980’s and early 1990s, I found that these first women assimilated in the masculine world of the military to rise up the ranks. They had to become “one of the boys.”
When you drink a cup of tea, have you ever thought about the story of the people and places involved in its production? Whether or not you have, the story of tea is likely much more complex than it seems. Tea production is surrounded with romanticized images of nature that ignore the colonial roots of […]
Construction on Syracuse’s stretch of I-81 started in 1959, and the project was widely lauded as an exciting opportunity to bolster the local economy; in reality, however, it decimated the 15th Ward, a historically Black neighborhood and initiated a period of “white flight” that would shape the city for generations.
Pictured above: 1950’s posters for boy scouts and girl scouts by Normal Rockwell. Put together here in a collage to show the seriousness portrayed by BSA compared to GSUSA’s more playful attitude. There is a reason why the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) have had a century-long identity crisis on their […]
The lack of diversity is a major problem in most spaces and institutions within the United States, but it is especially prevalent within the outdoor industry, which is dominated by wealthy white people. In 2015, people of color, who comprise 40% of the U.S. population, only accounted for about 20% of the visitors to national […]
Redlining was the historical practice of denying loans and services to those who lived in areas that were deemed of low economic value. Minorities (African Americans and immigrants) often lived in these redlined districts and were subjected to inequality, while the wealthy, white, majority were able to afford areas that were deemed safe and desirable. […]
Even though shootings are frequent and even normalized by some people, there are many misconceptions about the circumstances that create a school shooter. In sharing this graphic, I hope to bring awareness to these misconceptions and the realities of how school shooters can go unnoticed. Nowadays, school shootings are so common in the United States […]
