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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Category Archives: Opinion
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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The drag race to acceptance
LGBTea
Back then, I knew that if my family did not like that I was gay, it was going to cost something. But hating myself for being gay was going to cost more.
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Editors’ note: Reintroducing The Soapbox
The Soapbox will now be a place for Berkeley residents, UC Berkeley students and Daily Cal staff, past and present, to write 600-800 word essays about experiences or encounters they’ve had in the city of Berkeley.
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Congress should double Pell Grant, help make college affordable for all
UC AFFAIRS: Amid rising tuition and economic fallout of pandemic, higher education students need help
A steady decline in federal aid for students, accompanied by a steady rise in education costs, reveals a worrisome pattern — one that must be broken.
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City of Berkeley must continue work with advocacy groups to aid unhoused communities
People experiencing homelessness in Berkeley continue to be affected by water insecurity and encampment sweeps.
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Makeup shouldn’t be part of uniforms
Preventing discrimination won’t destroy the social norms that will still disadvantage non-stereotypically feminine women in the workplace, but it’s a step in the right direction.
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