Entering the Roaring ‘20s: A personal essay
Samantha Patten/File
Goodbye, teenage years; I definitely won’t miss you.Who would miss the pubescent nightmare that is a 13-year-old who believes he’s cooler than he really is?
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The Weeknd provides well-received (though uninspired) opening to Outside Lands weekend
Even though The Weeknd’s music was well-received by the Friday night crowd, his concert wasn’t particularly inventive or original.
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Why millennials are killing plays about sexual assault
Now and Again
I had never heard more people tell anecdotes of girls they knew lying about being raped than I did over the course of my work on that show.
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More than just dad jokes
Sunday was Father’s Day — the day to appreciate that dads have more to offer than bad jokes and high-quality barbecue. Whether you’ve been raised with the gentle “wade-from-the-shallow-end” approach or the tough “push-into-the-deep-end” approach, we at the Clog can agree that our fathers have offered us much irreplaceable, valuable advice. And without it, we could never hope to navigate UC Berkeley or the rest of the confusing world around us.
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Hiding and seeking without shame
Safe, Sane and Consensual
What if we expanded and improved on that small student bubble of safety to create a society without shame — a collective community, where we meet others and ourselves with acceptance rather than judgment? An idyllic world playground filled with self-aware individuals, who teach children how to love themselves, to honor their bodies, whatever shape they come in, and to honor their preferences, whatever gender or sexuality or fluid, indefinable package they appear in.
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