Conceal, don’t feel
LGBTea
Maybe I was born with it or maybe it was the five pounds of makeup on my face, but I felt like I was in a Maybelline commercial as I strutted to class.
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Category Archives: Opinion
Overdevelopment will ruin Berkeley Marina
Not all marina development and revitalization options are bad, but in its current state, the Berkeley Marina project is a gilded proposal at best.
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Berkeley housing reforms should actively support communities most harmed by past injustice
CITY AFFAIRS: As Berkeley City Council considers ending exclusionary zoning, measures should be put in place to ensure more housing becomes affordable
Should the Berkeley City Council resolution pass, housing under new ordinances should be developed with an eye toward those harmed by discriminatory policy.
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Embodying my honey and silk
Cal in Color
I quickly grew to resent my Chinese side. I hated my monolid eyes, my parents’ accented words, my mother’s ethnic dishes and anything else in between.
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The stars have spoken
Head in the Cloud
In my pursuit for “the best,” I found myself seduced by the rhetoric of convenience and forgetting the fulfillment in authentically discovering something new on my own.
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Navroze and Nirang: My life as a modern Zoroastrian
Off the Beat
In high school, I felt alone. I was the only Zoroastrian in my high school and am one out of about 14,000 Zoroastrians in the country.
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Unconditional love
Off the Beat
I found it difficult to distinguish between the great-grandmother who had given me endless validation and the great-grandmother who would beg for the same reassurance in return.
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My coincidental leap into feminism
A Modern Feminist?
For the first time, I could not look away; I had to acknowledge misogyny as a universal problem, not a mere inconvenience specific to my Eastern society.
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Lessons in abstinence
Sex on Tuesday
Sex is complicated, especially when it’s wrapped up in wounding experiences, and there’s not exactly a linear route to healing.
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A park by and for the people
CITY AFFAIRS: Fifty years after protest against developing People’s Park first erupted, campus should halt housing plans
While the importance of supportive housing in Berkeley cannot be discounted, People’s Park has never been a place for campus to do its bidding.
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