The humanity of vanity
Bear with Me
Why do we see Instagram posts as so far removed from the choreographed skits my cousins and I performed on Thanksgiving?
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Category Archives: Opinion
Why gender matters
As a 14-year-old female to male, or FTM, transgender teen, gender has taken on a necessary role in my everyday self-expression and identity.
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Brotherhood and bisexuality
Yet, here at the poster child for liberal higher education, Greek life persists as a bastion of aging understandings of gender and sexuality.
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Falling off the straight path
In my mind, I had been and would always be the world’s best chameleon: I knew what people expected of me, and that’s exactly what I showed them.
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The bridges I’ve burned
We Need to Talk
I’m the first to admit that I wasn’t the best daughter, friend or sister during that period. And yet, the people I was closest to offered me reconciliation – the bridges I burned could be rebuilt.
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A vision for People’s Park
Now is the time to move from the park being a volatile point of controversy to developing a feasible plan of action based on cooperation between the University of California and the people of the city that hosts its flagship campus.
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All is not fair in love and nonmonogamy
Sex on Tuesday
I tried to say that if I fell in love with him, it wouldn’t change things — I was never going to try replacing his wife, or attempt to wreck their marriage.
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Where I found God
Growing Into Myself
I was both baptized and named before living 30 days on Earth, which meant my cross-religious identity was solidified before I could support the weight of my own head.
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UC worker is no longer able to live in Berkeley
Working families like ours had been priced out of the community. I was heartbroken. Our entire life — our jobs, schools and families — was in Berkeley.
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When Singhal met Mahi
Cal in Color
My clasped control on my manicured identity had given me multiple eating disorders and a vapid social circle with no one to really talk to.
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