Predominantly white colleges and universities tend to overrepresent people of color (POC) on their official websites in their efforts to portray a welcoming environment for POC on campus. The websites show professors of color excitedly giving speeches to the campus community, talking happily with other colleagues, or working collaboratively with students in labs. Universities’ official […]
Despite having over 82 million monthly listeners on Spotify, Taylor Swift has found herself needing to prove her talent over and over again as she struggles to be taken seriously as a female songwriter and musician. This is not just an issue faced by Swift. Women in the workplace are held to a different standard […]
In 1956, the Hungarian people revolted against the Soviet Union, who had occupied the country following World War Two. Despite their anger about the occupation, the Soviet Union clamped down on the revolution, causing hundreds of thousands of refugees to flee the country. Among them were my grandparents, who fled across the border to Austria […]
Pictured: US map colored by party association in the 2020 presidential election. Each state contains the number of votes needed to equal one of their electoral representatives.On average, democratic states needed ~261,437.91 votes to win one electoral representative, while Republicans needed ~318,665.91 (~57,527.61 more on average) in the 2 020 election. The structure of the […]
How come the instruction and creation of art has become so disincentivized and devalued?
As an art major with a concentration in oil painting and a Muslim woman of color, I can confidently say I have never seen art by or been taught about successful oil painters who share these identities. For an assignment in my advanced oil painting class, we had to recreate an oil painting by an […]
