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Boston Chain Of Events Comes To An End
I’ve been glued to my TV since Monday, following the Boston chain of events with desperation. I don’t live in Boston, but I’d planned to move there for college, so the recent circumstances have left me reeling in shock. I know I didn’t feel even a fraction of the pain that the Greater Boston area [...]
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Posted in Connect, Empowerment, Human Rights, Philosophical Musings
Tagged Boston Marathon
The War Outside Our Door Keeps Raging On
I never thought a few months ago when I was writing about Newtown that I would be watching yet another tragedy unfold in front of me so soon. Earlier today, two explosions rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Reports have varied about how many people were hurt or killed, but let’s just say [...]
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Posted in Connect, Empowerment, Human Rights
Tagged Boston Marathon, senseless tragedy, the weapon we have is love
Steubenville Case Opens Rape Culture Discussion
Trigger Warning: Discussion of rape culture and sexual violence. At this point, nearly everyone knows what happened in Steubenville. A young girl, drunk at a party, was raped by two boys while she was unconscious- and it was filmed. The boys have been sentenced to a minimum of one year in a juvenile detention facility, [...]
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Posted in Empowerment, Human Rights
Tagged feminism, rape culture, steubenville
Protect the Voting Rights Act
We live in a post-racial society. American voting laws are fair and non-discriminatory. Everybody is considered equal in the eyes of the law. Right? Wrong. This past Wednesday, the Supreme Court of the United States heard the oral arguments in the Shelby County v Holder case, which challenges the constitutionality of the preclearance requirements of [...]
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Posted in Action, Connect, Empowerment, Human Rights
Tagged voter equality, voting, vra
Ravenclaw Thoughts, Ted Talks
Education is incredibly precious. When my grandfather came home from WWII, he was adamant on going to college. He used his GI Bill, got his books, and excitedly went to all of his classes. Soon into the semester, my grandpa realized it wasn’t easy to transition from surviving war to surviving class- he was already [...]
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Posted in Action, Connect, Empowerment, Harry Potter Alliance News, Human Rights, Philosophical Musings
Tagged HPA, Human Rights, news, tedx
Show Us the Report: A College Chapter Story
Oh, know the perils, read the signs, The warning history shows, For our Hogwarts is in danger From external, deadly foes And we must unite inside her Or we’ll crumble from within -The Sorting Hat, Order of the Phoenix The past two weeks, my college’s HPA chapter has been tabling for signatures for [...]
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Posted in Action, Chapters, Harry Potter Alliance News, Human Rights
Tagged Chapters, equality, Fair Trade, Harry Potter Alliance News, HPA, Human Rights
“Progress in Marriage Equality” 2.0
When I joined the HPA staff back in September, one of the first blogs I wrote was about my personal experience with marriage equality (you can read it here). I compared equality to a baby taking it’s first steps- excruciatingly slow. “It may take decades for it to reach it’s goal… But it will get [...]
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Posted in Human Rights, LGBTQ, Philosophical Musings
Tagged equality, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Marriage Equality
