Lessons from Brock Turner: UC Berkeley, do not repeat Stanford’s mistakes
As a society, when will we stop silencing the voices of these victims? When will the phrase “enough is enough” be taken seriously?
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Category Archives: Opinion
Phantasms of inclusion
Cal in Color
Just because UC Berkeley isn’t majority white doesn’t mean that it truly includes its Black undergraduates — and labelling our campus as POC-majority further erases Black students.
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It’s high time
American Pie?
We cannot proceed as though time is linear, as though our reputations are the only things at stake, as though the past is a dusty relic.
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CA should pass ACA 5, end Prop. 209
STATE AFFAIRS: Affirmative action would help nuance admissions, improve diversity
Today, ACA 5 has unanimous support from the UC regents, and voters deserve a chance to repeal a race-blind system that was tried and has failed.
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‘They hunt us down for fun’
Stories from the Outside
Authorities have established this dominance and control over transgender and queer people, and they wield their power to devastating effect: surveilling, tracking and quite literally hunting them.
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My girlfriend’s girlfriend
Sex on Tuesday
I enter open relationships not as a ready participant in the established guidelines but as an interloper. I am always sure that I might be the exception.
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Twitter’s actions are detrimental to Venezuela amid COVID-19
It’s ironic that a social media platform that considers conversation and connection so valuable would shut off an important platform in a time of crisis.
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Seeing and being seen
Love in Conversation
This is one of love’s implicit agreements: I won’t — or can’t — hide, but whatever you see, you won’t look away. And vice versa.
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UC, please keep SAT, ACT
For a country founded on the principle that all men are created equal, doing away with the great testing equalizer is a step in the wrong direction.
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You catch more flies with honey
Cal in Color
I wanted to write “Cal in Color” to create real dialogue on what it actually means to be a Black woman at Berkeley, and doing so requires the invocation of uncomfortable radical topics.
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