When delving into the feminist statutes that have manifested across time and location, it is difficult to believe that hindsight is really 20/20. For if this cliché were doubtlessly true, as so many assert, then how can incessant discriminatory practices against women across the globe be explained? [continue reading]
Understanding Felon Disenfranchisement
According to Christopher Uggen, Ryan Larson, and Sarah Shannon’s piece “6 Million Lost Voters,” 1,686,318 Americans in Florida cannot vote due to disenfranchisement, 499,306 of those being African American. [continue reading]
The Times Over Time
Whereas a lackluster analysis would claim this stark discrepancy can be chalked up to changing Times (pun intended), a closer inquiry posits that this transition can be explored in an intently dissecting manner that has the capacity to both compliment and criticize the publication in question. [continue reading]
Conglomerate Linguistic Analysis of Dana Loesch
Dana Loesch, the orator, is the figurehead, in this current societal moment, for The National Rifle Association, and in being such represents the conservative perspective on gun control. A point of view that is all at once terrifying and backed by millions. [continue reading]
Centuries Apart: Defining Citizenship
In order to aptly explicate the pathways through which immigration policy, rhetoric, and actions have played out across temporal and geographic boundaries, one must first understand the premier tools to utilize in that journey. [continue reading]
Gendered Nuances Attached to The Immigrant Experience for Women Fleeing Violence from Latin America
As walls continue to be built and immigrant women are simultaneously victimized and villainized, the world’s hope hinges on the ability to read, acknowledge, and act upon the following question raised by Jane Fonda and Karen Musalo in a New York Times Opinion Piece entitled “Her Husband Beat Her and Raped Her. Jeff Sessions Might Deport Her” [continue reading]
How DACA’s Imperfect Past Should Be Salvaged to a More “Perfect Union”
When considering the future of DACA, there are often three theoretical directions that policy makers engage with: Scrap it and remake completely, sustain aspects and evolve from where it stands now, or keep it as is. [continue reading]
Unpacking, Exploring, and Combating The Inequitable Criminal Justice System
When analyzing history, one should notice cruxes, or turning points, within the development of different social contexts and discriminatory spheres of human interactions. It is at these junctions where revolutionaries thrive beyond seemingly accepted societal norms to imagine a more just alternative to whichever ailment is currently impacting the progression of an ideal state of nature. [continue reading]
View of The Death Penalty Depending on Race and Your Familial Relation to The Prison Industrial Complex
There are a mere 57 countries that still retain the death penalty. Out of those, only four are considered “industrialized.” The United States is one of them. Even more, just 2% of counties in the U.S. have accounted for over 50% of the executions since 1976. [continue reading]
How The War On Drugs Disproportionately Impacts Youth of Color
By employing social scientific and anecdotal evidence, this piece shows that the systemic jailing of black and brown people extends beyond criminal court to the very edges of the United States’ juvenile justice paradigm. In order to aptly make this assertion, however, one must not depend merely on opinion, although it does have merit. [continue reading]
