Don't hesitate to celebrate
By Luke A. Powery | August 26, 2024Celebrating may seem out of touch with “real life” with the ongoing injustices of war and innocent bloodshed, but a deep wisdom reveals otherwise.
Celebrating may seem out of touch with “real life” with the ongoing injustices of war and innocent bloodshed, but a deep wisdom reveals otherwise.
Professor Doriane Coleman's advocacy for discrimination poses a significant threat to trans rights, women's rights and human rights in general.
The training failed to acknowledge the rich history of anti-Zionist, diasporic Jewish movements that have presented alternative visions for Jewish safety.
Duke's use of land grabs, gentrification and forced displacement to expand its operations and wealth are the same tactics used by the Israeli government against Palestinians in occupied Palestine.
Duke should either stick to its stated policy, and allow all legal speech on the bridge, or abandon the pretense of a “free expression” bridge altogether.
In this time of heightened tensions on college campuses, it is critical to vigilantly ensure the safety of Jewish students while protecting free speech and protest. We must be careful not to breach into anti-democratic action that conflicts with our liberal ideals and contributes to more hate.
Prescribing things I could’ve done differently is really just rolling the dice again with the possibility of worse outcomes.
I encourage you to take hold of existing in the world and to not put a hold on existing.
It was a difficult reality to accept — that, as obvious as it sounds, my writing was being read, unraveled and picked apart by classmates, parents and strangers on the Internet.
Trying to balance who I wanted to be as a person with what I wanted to do as editor was a scale that I never quite leveled.
To a vision of community, to student journalism at its bravest and to the organization I hope we can become.
Each story was an opportunity for me to both learn something about Duke and the vibrant communities within it and share what I learned with a broader community.
Sometimes I hear from students about hierarchies and inequalities in their campus communities. Duke professors, too, find themselves arrayed along a socio-economic hierarchy that feels significantly more rigid than in years past.
The recent SB 20 abortion restriction is the latest wave of a legal culture that enforces a medical reality in which Black communities lose mothers and infants at disproportionately high rates.
I desire a healthcare landscape where my blackness, and that of others, is not a factor that diminishes my worthiness of care from any doctor. I aspire to a healthcare system where Black women are not restricted from the abortion care they need.
As a reproductive-aged rising OBGYN, the consequences of the Dobbs decision on safe reproductive care are as personal as they are professional.
Perhaps, we need something simpler: the permission to take a break.
Religion is meant to be a supplement to your faith; it is not meant to be a replacement.
Rejected from The Fluke twice, chronic bench napper, DSG expat: My name is Zoe Tishaev (sometimes known as my mobile order name, “Candice Nutzfitinyomouf”), and it has been an honor to serve as your Monday Monday.
Writing my OP-Eds has been a means of deep self-reflection, and that’s what I’ve gotten from my time as a columnist.