An Immigrant’s Progress

Trees are funny things. They are held in place by tiny, hidden roots and they come into incredible power through millions of branches, big and small. It is sometimes hard to see where one root or bough starts and the spider webs of vessels and twigs stop. The more I unearth my history, the more [...]

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Know Your Labels!

I originally wrote this blog for the first part of Not in Harry’s Name, but since that was a while back, I thought you might like to refresh your memory about all those labels you see at the grocery store. Note that the labels shown here are the US versions, and although most countries have [...]

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Monthly Recap: November

Another month gone! To paraphrase Dumbledore, “I hope you’re heads are all a little fuller than they were.” Mine certainly is, as is evidenced by the fact that I originally named this blog ‘October recap.’ Clearly I’m trying to give myself extra time before finals! November has been a busy month for the HPA. Our [...]

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Meet the Bloggers: Lizzie the Chameleon

My name is Elizabeth. I am inconsistent. I am a contradiction. I don’t know what or who I am, but I do know that there is far too much of me to fit inside one body. I feel like a chameleon sometimes, constantly changing- but I have no natural color. At the end of the [...]

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Meet the Bloggers: Anna is Good? (ha)

Hi everyone! My name is Anna Good, and I’m one of the newer bloggers. As I write this, I am sitting in the living room of my single apartment surrounded by boxes of stuff that I don’t know what to do with. It’s kind of daunting to be organizing and unpacking all of this on [...]

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Meet the Bloggers: Eclectic Erin

Starting this week, every Sunday you’re going to be getting to know your resident HPA Blog Team better!  For now, this means each Sunday you’ll be meeting another one of the HPA bloggers, but once you meet all of us, keep your eyes out for some amusing ways you can get to know us even [...]

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Urgent: Sahel Day of Action

The Hunger Games are never truly at an end, as we all know. The only question is, where’s the next arena? Well, the Sahel region of West Africa looks like a very likely candidate, unless we can put a stop to it before it’s too late.

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Jewish Rabbis Support Gay Marrriage

I seem to be writing a lot about LGBTQ equality issues lately. I’m glad to say that that’s because there’s a lot of exciting things happening in the world of marriage equality right now. Although there have certainly been some setbacks recently, the victories far out way them in every way. In just the last [...]

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It’s a Vlogaversary! (Oh, and there’s free stuff)

This week is the one-year anniversary, ahem I mean Vlogaversary, of the HPA’s YouTube Channel. The year has been filled with a range of videos from funny and playful, to introspective and enlightening. Lauren, Julian and Kelly regularly cover social justice issues, musings of college students, and discussions of HPA campaigns.

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And the Guest Blogs Continue…

As you all probably noticed, all of last week we posted blogs from our staff and guest bloggers on how fictional women inspired, influenced, and changed them as a lead up to International Women’s Day. From Rory Gilmore to Esther from the Bible, female characters from books, movies, television shows, and more make large impacts [...]

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