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An Immigrant’s Progress

by EmilyR June 17, 2013 Leave a comment

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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What It Feels Like For A Girl (AKA The Blog I’ve Been Waiting To Write)

by Elizabeth Fierro March 8, 2013 4 Comments

The list of commemorative months is long and- I’ll admit it- kind of amusing. There is, of course, National Novel Writing Month (November), which I’m sure most of you have heard of- but did you know that in the US, July is considered ‘National Hotdog Month’? And according to Wikipedia, September also celebrates a seemingly [...]

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Show Us the Report: A College Chapter Story

by Anna Good February 22, 2013 Leave a comment

  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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“Progress in Marriage Equality” 2.0

by Elizabeth Fierro February 16, 2013 3 Comments

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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There’s a Pride in My Heart, ‘Cause I Know Where I’m Going

by Quinn Kess November 13, 2012 Leave a comment

There’s something about the day after Election Day, something painful, something cheerful. I’ve been in many campaign offices as they’re being cleaned up, and somehow, no matter whether the candidate won or lost, there’s always an odd feeling, questions about what should have been done differently, or celebrations about what went right.

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Pride and Prejudice: The Problem with Banning Pride

by Joana Petrova October 20, 2012 Leave a comment

After the Russian government banned the Moscow Pride for a century this August, one may begin to  wonder: why would anyone want to ban the manifestation of love and diversity? If we are people who claim to value equality, then why do some appear to be more equal than others?

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Daring Nerve and Chivalry

by Quinn Kess September 18, 2012 Leave a comment

It’s the tale as old as time. No, not that one. I’m not talking about singing dishware and household appliances here. Boy loves girl. That tale. Sure, we’ve updated it a bit. Boy loves boy. Girl gets the girl. However, somewhere in there, there is a story of love, of companionship, dare I say it, [...]

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The Importance of Equality in Education

by Kara O'Brien August 25, 2012 Leave a comment

In America we have always prided ourselves on the social mobility in our country. People of any and every class have the ability to achieve their dreams–whatever those may be. People first came to America to escape a society in which people were simply born into their position–a status which defined what jobs they could [...]

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Are You Aching from Akin? Women’s Health and Equality

by EmilyR August 25, 2012 Leave a comment

As an English major, I was always nitpicked for my word choice. As a result, I have learned that definitions matter; context matters; “hedging” words matters. For you avid readers out there, you have seen that good novelists see word choice as a great, weighty power- it can bolster, focus, or magnify controversial issues such [...]

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Equality For the WIN!!!

by Kara O'Brien August 17, 2012 1 Comment

Calling all D.A. members! As of NOW, the HPA is hosting a super-mega-awesome fundraiser for Equality. We’re teaming with awesome people like you to raise $50,000 by September 8th. Not only is this an opportunity to donate to an awesome cause and help fight inequality issues all over the globe, you can also claim some [...]

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