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Poetry and Short Fiction
Kernel Magazine:
all the better to see you with
8Poems:
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Three-Act Eden
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Figure One:
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Verboten
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Apogee Journal:
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Exhibition Match
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Baram House:
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Family Business
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The Egg
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Liminal
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Essays (Opinion, Advocacy, Personal)
Post45 Contemporaries:
Heteropessimism cluster:
How do we write about love of cock?
San Francisco Chronicle:
There's still reason to be worried about a national abortion ban
The Point Magazine:
Closeness without consequence
Rewire.org:
Wine or Whiskey: The Women Challenging Alcohol Gender Norms
A Travel Guide to Globe-Trotting with a Conscience
Why Are There Judges On Your Ballot?
Bust Magazine:
"The Redistribution of Gardening" - A Response to Ross Douthat's "Redistribution of Sex"
The Atlantic:
Letter to the Editor in Response to Conor Friedersdorf's article on democratic socialism and minorities
The Bold Italic:
How It Feels When Your Friends Get Rich
Why You Should Think Twice About Calling the Police on Homeless People
Women's Media Center:
Sexual Harassment in Academia: What Now?
New Girls: Looking for the Allure in Feminism
Why Teens' Attitudes Matter
Berkeley Political Review:
The Social Bad in Selling Social Good
Popping the Berkeley Bubble
American Sniper: Opposing Scopes
December Berkeley Protests: Where Do We Go From Here?
A Freshman's Perspective on the Recent Police Brutality Protest
Hipsters, Murals, and Putin's New Youth Movement
Children Left Behind: the ADHD Epidemic and Problems in American Education
The Hyde Amendment: Disproportionately Affecting American Women Since 1976
Wikimedia Foundation:
A bunch of media just entered the public domain. Here's why that matters
Making the invisible seen: Berkeley event connects artists and academia to improve representation on Wikipedia
Huffington Post:
Data-Driven Everything
The Asian Beauty Problem
'Humanities Folks' Need to Pay Attention to STEM, and Vice Versa
Keeping Up with the Joneses, When the Joneses Are High Schoolers
Would You Buy This For Your Daughter?
Mashable:
5 Suggestions for Better STEM Education, from Students
I'm 15 and All My Friends Use Facebook
Shriver Report:
Dare to Say the F-Word
Gates Foundation:
My Hope for 2030
Berkeley Student Journal of Asian Studies:
"Dark India" and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Essays on Medium:
New Rules: The tech-enabled mind games of modern dating suck. Let's put an end to them
An Open Letter: Thursday night, an uncomfortable flirtation, and how it
all could have been different
Killing the Nice Girl: Reflections on speaking up and quieting down
Officer O'Reilly: What bogeymen, sisterhood, and walking alone taught me about "staying safe"
Interviews and Profiles
The Adroit Journal:
Against Assimilation: A Conversation with Nicole Chung
UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix:
Urban Planning in China's 'Ecological Civilization'
Changing the Face of Economics
A Tax to Support 'Made in the USA'
Dr. Charis Thompson and Critique in the Age of Trump
Bikes and the Changing City
Network Survival Method
Racism and Heart Health
Envisioning Inclusive Geography
Make Magazine:
Patent Pandas: How One Maker Is Turning Her Horrible Experience Into a Force for Good
Wogrammer:
The Hidden Value of Detours: How a serendipitous stumble into a cyber-cafe catalyzed Gladys Maina's IT career
Breaking Down Walls with Open Source: Srishti Sethi's developer advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation
Education
TED and TED Ed:
Advice from a young TED speaker: start a TED-Ed Club at your school
What's so super about superheroes? This teen speaker explains
TED-Ed Clubs asks: how do you talk about depression?
Islamophobia through the eyes of a middle school student
Be part of the creative movement for girls' education
3 storytelling tips for TED-Ed Clubs
Becoming Spiderman may be easier than you think: a TED-Ed Club talk on genetically modified humans
Does school prepare students for the real world? This teen speaker says no
Mashable:
5 Ground-Breaking Competitions for Innovative Youth
5 Social Good Websites Aimed at Youth
5 Ways Classrooms Can Use Video Conferencing
Edutopia:
5 Ways to Empower Students
Humor
Slackjaw:
A Preemptive Apology from Me, Frat Chapter President, for Our Upcoming Racist Halloween Party
A Beginner's Guide to Woke-Signaling at the Movies
The Bold Italic:
Your Life at a San Francisco Nonprofit
Academic Writing
Columbia South Asia Review:
From Nation-Building to Nation-Buying: Selling a Neoliberal Vision of Development in the New India
Berkeley Student Journal of Asian Studies:
Trouble in Paradise: Auroville and the Limits of Utopia
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