Professional purgatory
To the Left
My family sees a finance career as something that will keep me content because it’ll bring financial comfort. But I want more than comfort; I want happiness
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Black people can’t keep dying for the sake of whiteness
I am willing to afford white people and the police safety, but I am not willing to pay for it with the continued loss of Black lives and dignity.
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How to save AC Transit
Buses are the linchpin to ensuring that we stop global warming, stop rising inequality and get people where they need to go safely.
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Slipping through the cracks
Cal in Color
As much as I enjoy the opportunity of sharing the wonderful tangle of my background, multiracial people are expected to constantly explain our existences.
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Pay Berkeley Student Cooperative workers what they deserve, on time
COMMUNITY AFFAIRS: To fulfill its purpose, BSC must adequately compensate workers, revamp payment process
By withholding rent stipends and payments from its population, the BSC undermines its own goals and exacerbates the very inequities it attempts to bridge.
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Finding my way home
Impulsive Coward
Each small risk at a time, though, I’ve learned that finding “home” is all about improvising and redefining my idea of it.
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‘Dirty’ lesbian
Thinking Outside the Binary
I couldn’t be a lesbian. Not because I was certain I liked men as well as girls, but because I didn’t want to be treated as less than human.
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Own our fight: Paving the path forward for international students
With the absence of sufficient justification, this policy seems a deliberate effort to impose barriers on international students and threaten the autonomy of universities and their diverse international scholarships.
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To be touch starved
Sex on Tuesday
Being touch starved doesn’t just mean that you aren’t having sex. Sex expires. And often the heat it gives off makes you colder when it’s gone.
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Preserve international students’ access to higher education, challenge proposed international student visa rule
UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS: International students are critical to UC system’s academic ecosystem. It must fight to protect them,
Just like when it sued to protect students, the UC system cannot be a bystander — we must fight for all of our students, international or otherwise.
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