Featured image from https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-advocates-and-lawmakers-are-doing-to-address-growing-anti-asian-hate-crimes. Demonstrators outside City Hall in Los Angeles, California, U.S. March 27, 2021. REUTERS/Ringo Chiu Atlanta Attacks Amongst other atrocities and acts against civil justice, Asian Americans have fallen victim to the blunder of hate crimes. A recent shooting in Atlanta left eight dead, six of the […]
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Period Products Are Free in Scotland, Will the World Follow?
Period Plunder The stigma around a woman’s period, one of the most natural processes our body has to offer, has become apparent in this past century. However, there’s no doubt that in that century, there has been a significant advancement in the creation of safe and usable menstrual hygiene products. […]
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Women in Church Given More Positions
The Vatican, often regarded as the most sacred temple of worship in Catholicism has frequently been a controversial subject in the 2000 years since its inception. The new move by Pope Francis to allow more freedom for women to serve in the church has made leaps in terms of closing […]
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Effects of the COVID-19 Variant on the Vaccine
Since late December of 2019, Covid-19 has heavily impacted the world. Fortunately, the long-waited COVID-19 vaccine has been developed and has proved to be unlike any precursor vaccines. The two vaccines currently in use employ mRNA technology. While previous vaccines work by administering a harmless form of a disease/virus, enabling […]
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Treatment by COVID-19 Antibodies
According to BBC News, Alan Mack and his daughter Rebecca Mack were both diagnosed with COVID-19 in April 2020. Rebecca, a nurse in the children’s cancer unit at Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, England died of the virus soon after diagnosis. Her father also contracted the virus severely, but was […]
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The Live-Action Mulan Film Controversy
Usually, questions we have when deciding whether to watch our childhood favorite Disney remakes are regarding the film itself. However, coinciding with the ‘cancel culture’ that has governed much of our year, many people are choosing to boycott the live-action film Mulan due to hurtful comments made by actress Liu […]
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Women in the STEM Field
Women, though they have been hindered, were instrumental in creating some of the greatest breakthroughs in the STEM world. I’m sure you’ve all heard of Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the first person to win a second Nobel Prize. Unsurprisingly, she was an exception […]
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Is Our Universal Right to Vote Being Taken Away?
Of all rights we have, the right to vote is by far the most Democratically ‘defining’. Voting for candidates allows the country to choose people they trust to run the nation, but is the current voting system an accurate representation of the entire nation? Over 100,000,000 Americans did not vote […]
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Women In The Eyes of The Media
AOC, a strong example In late July, Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (also known as AOC), for New York’s 14th congressional district, spoke about her interaction with a co-worker, Republican Representative Ted Yoho. During the interaction, which took place on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington D.C, Yoho reportedly […]
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Why is Anxiety So Prevalent Among Gen Zers?
The National Institute of Mental Health describes occasional anxiety as “an expected part of life”. The small instances of rapid heartbeats, confusion, and head-spinning are symptoms everyone experiences when faced with a daunting task or experience. But when these symptoms evolve and become more frequent, occasional anxiety can turn into […]