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Photo by Mari Campos @fotografamaricampos in Itabira, Brazil. 2021 My boyfriend and I come from opposite ends of the same hemisphere, yet the world we both met in is now gone. It was a beautiful world, one where you kissed the cheek of each new person you met and offered a share of your drink to …
In the first minutes of the Netflix documentary Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom the cameras capture rubble, screams and gunshots. We see a young man slumped over, dead in the middle of a street in Ukraine as people run past him. It looks like a war zone. A man no older than 22 …
About This Project. A storymap is a visual narrative, traditionally used for geographical/science-based storytelling. Its format can help illustrate spatial relationships, make data visualization interactive, and it is a powerful way to share ideas. This storymap compiles data from 30 youth across 14 U.S states and 5 countries. Participants filled out a short questionnaire regarding …
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What comes to mind when you think of Brazil? Carnaval? Brazilian waxes? Brazilian weave? All these things have truth, but are not reflective of all that Brazil has to offer. During my study abroad experience in South America, I learned that my identity would transform according to the languages I spoke. On my flight to …
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The Black Lives Matter movement has inspired an emergence of prison abolitionist thought as more people realize the unjustness of our justice system, including me. I’ve never thought about what a world would look like without prisons before. I thought police were corrupt, but prisons? Prison abolition is still regarded as radical, but is being …
Continue reading "Book Review by Savannah Dicus: Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis"
A journey through a time of injustice and inequality. A desire to grasp what is truly felt and honestly stated. An excursion on how art, music, math, and other roots shape us. A knowledge that we sometimes lose touch with ourselves and our heritage. A tying of knots that bring it all together. An eye …
Continue reading "Poem by Katherine Magley: The Raging Fire"
Classical economic theory suggests that an abundance of natural resources is expected to benefit states in the long run via gains to gross domestic product (GDP) and decreased trade dependency. While this theory applies to states like Norway, studies have shown that many other states have experienced the opposite; instead of spurring broadly shared economic …