Machismo is a burden that plagues the Latin American community. As a queer Latin American myself, I’ve often faced machismo, whether it’s been within my own family or outside of it. From hearing the stories of abuse victims, to witnessing catcalls directed at my sisters, to seeing my father transition from being my greatest role […]
College students face growing pressure to do well in school, and oftentimes this comes with higher levels of stress (Cooper 2017). To cope, some have turned to illicit usage of prescription stimulants meant for treatment of ADHD (Rolland and Smith 2017), in order to help with large amounts of difficult schoolwork. This misuse of Adderall […]
In June of 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and in light of an alarming rate of infection among Black people in the US, at an Ohio Senate Health and Human Services committee hearing, state Senator and emergency room Doctor Stephen Huffman inquired, in a problematic manner, why the rate of COVID was […]
A growing number of young adults skeptical of the effects of the rapid proliferation of digital technology are beginning to turn towards analog tools, once seen as obsolete, as an alternative. Generation Z, those born between 1996 and 2010, is often portrayed as unequivocal embracers of technology and the digital world. In many respects, this […]
Listen to the podcast here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TGbjKG8foN6E_qG34BRm2_upuR-tT1Cj/view?usp=sharing It’s no secret that men have long dominated the STEM field, and some of the field’s leading female pioneers were robbed of the recognition they deserved. Take Rosalind Franklin, an excellent wet-lab chemist. She took the first clear X-ray fiber diffraction photo of DNA, which James Watson and Francis […]
“Cancel culture” is the public shunning of someone when they’ve said or done something people view as problematic (Wong 2022). So, how did it come about? People try to separate the “good” and the “bad”. They do this by punishing those who act in said “bad” ways, in order to reduce the chance of those […]
Elizabeth Holmes, depicted through a mosaic of historical and current-day female scientists, all from the Association for Women in Science. Silicon Valley is often described as a “boy’s club” or a “brotopia” (Grybos 2023) where success stories such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Jeff Bezos who started coding in humble garages are broadcast worldwide […]
The average child in the U.S. watches 4.5 hours a day (CDC 2018)! With so much time spent watching television, how characters are portrayed shapes children’s behaviors and ideas (Dugan 2010, p. 998). From the age of 3, children are able to learn from video as well as live presentations (Moriguchi 2014, p. 3). Yet […]
Tyon is studious and loves learning. He enjoys receiving report cards and reading outside of school. Inside the classroom, he seems like any other bright and happy kid. However, Tyon does not have a permanent home. His belongings have been stolen as he moves from shelter to shelter, making it difficult for him to keep […]
Exploring why second generation American’s assimilate beyond their cultural ancestry and into the norms of the United States.
