stigma

In light of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, are we really surprised that the government has viewed femininity as a political weapon rather than a state of life?

College can be awfully suffocating. For these four integral years, we are pigeonholed into majors that supposedly define our entire personality.

Stigma surrounding addiction remains as strong as ever in the 21st century. The cultural bias against people suffering from this disease contributes to thousands of deaths every year.

As with most abstract concepts, the language we use to approximate mental health shapes our attitudes toward it. In the case of mental health, this often results in growing up with stigma.

 I was somewhat aware of my erratic pursuits of dopamine and novel stimuli, but the problem was that there wasn’t a language in my culture to identify and to describe these issues, and certainly not in a healthy, constructive way.

There are many forms of behavioral addiction that often go overlooked due to the negative stigma surrounding addiction in general. If you or a loved one are suffering from addiction, contact a hotline or a local resource.

The tradition of gender roles dictates that women and gender-nonconforming people should be passive and men should be active. But is this the best for them?

It’s 2021 and we still don’t talk about periods as we should. Women should not have to fit their time of the month into a box of expectations.

To me, taking antidepressants felt like cheating. It felt like taking the easy way out. I wanted to make myself happy through my own willpower.

There is an unspoken tension between the number-crunchers and networkers, and the arts and humanities majors in that the former look at the latter with disparaging disrespect.