Catie Byrne Features Editor To preface this article, when referring to the S*oux Native peoples, this writer will instead use the name, Oceti Sakowin, as the Oceti Sakowin people have communicated that the term S*oux is a slur, and… Read More ›
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Islamophobia post 9/11: an interview with Lena Ragab
Catie Byrnes Features Editor September 11, 2016, marks the 15-year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. As this country comes together to mourn and remember those lost in the tragedy that is 9/11,… Read More ›
Black Lives Matter: two years after Ferguson
Catie Byrne Features Editor Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2014, marks the second anniversary of Mike Brown’s homicide by police officer, Darren Wilson. It’s hard to forget the murder that re-ignited the Black Lives Matter movement that took America by storm… Read More ›
Hayley Kiyoko: a gay icon
Catie Byrne Feature Editor Glancing forlornly from against a locker, stealing glances at five girls, Hayley Kiyoko breaks out into dance in front of and against the five girls, Jasmine, Blake, Olivia, Sienna and Angie, in her Aug. 5… Read More ›
Be popular? Get money
Catie Byrne Features Editor Are you popular on tumblr? Well, now you can get paid for it. Bloggers have used the web to monetize their content for decades, but these have largely been limited to more professional blogs and those… Read More ›
Go Pokemon Go!
Catie Byrne Features Editor Car crashes, muggings, and racial profiling; these are the warnings which have rung high and low in the wake of the release of the app, Pokémon Go. And while these are perfectly legitimate warning signs to… Read More ›
Train wreck: gay dating
Catie Byrne Features Editor When gay people are first coming on to the dating scene, it’s like a second puberty — we’re self-conscious, still figuring out our style, insecure — and we don’t know what we’re doing, while we pretend… Read More ›
On the Pulse shooting
Catie Byrne Features Editor I don’t want to write about the pulse shooting. It hurts to write this. I am physically aching. My eyes are tired, I haven’t slept. I’ve been crying on and off for the past 48 hours. I’m… Read More ›
Songs that say: I’m gay
Catie Byrne Features Editor It happened by sheer coincidence. On the way to the farmer’s market car with my dad, we stumbled upon a radio station that played college acapella group covers of famous songs. After listening to a little… Read More ›
Experiencing “The Room”
Catie Byrne Features Editor Written, starring, and produced by actor, Tommy Wiseau, “The Room,” has become a cult classic bad movie. Encouraged by friends, I decided to watch the movie with a friend, drunk. Ranking at a respectable 35 percent… Read More ›
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