I am my Brownness
Cal in Color
Obviously, I knew that I was Brown. But in their attempts to make me feel included, my Ukrainian family made me feel even more othered.
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‘Bold of you to assume I’m straight’
Cal in Color
For some immigrants and BIPOC like me, being expressive with our identities can be more challenging than it is for white, non-immigrant people.
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Deconstructing my own privilege
Cal in Color
Being a BIPOC who had a traditionally white upbringing, I come from an odd position: I am both racially privileged and not privileged.
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Existing in white-dominated spaces
Cal in Color
In a white-dominated institution such as UC Berkeley, we need to talk about the emotional labor that students of color inevitably undertake to exist here.
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Aurora Theatre’s ‘Everything Is Illuminated’ shines with powerful script
From its title, “Everything Is Illuminated” may seem like a lighthearted, inspirational story. And while it is at times, it’s much more than that, and it’s deeper, darker and all the more beautiful for it. Aurora Theatre Company’s “Everything is Illuminated” is a gorgeous and powerful play driven by a strong script.
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Talk through text
Because the internet
We are a lazy generation — or so, at least, have we been dubbed over and over again. We are “millennials”, born and raised to create an era of the entitled, the selfish and the apathetic.
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Economist, Soviet scholar Gregory Grossman dies at 93
UC Berkeley professor Gregory Grossman, a lead scholar specializing in the study of Soviet economy, died on August 14 at age 93.
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From more than 6,000 miles away, Ukrainian students, professors reflect on their home country
Ukraine, a normally peaceful country, was recently fractured by a series of violent protests culminating in scores of deaths, the ousting of its president and what many Ukrainians have called a “land invasion” by Russia.
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The Daily Cal Guide to the Euros: Group D (Kicking England while it’s down)
Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in soccer correspondent Seung Y. Lee’s four-part preview of the Euros. Today he previews Group D: Ukraine, Sweden, France and England. Click here for Seung’s previews of Group A, Group B and Group C. When does tragicomedy turn into comitragedy? Between it is
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