Category: Viewpoints

  • Black women’s stories need telling, not dismissing

    February is the time of the year all attention turns to the black community. However, this is the time of year I feel black women are silenced more than ever or simply placed on the back burner. Many times if we aren’t learning about Angela Davis or Rosa Parks, black women are being portrayed as…

  • Blacks appropriate African culture

    The release of the Black Panther movie is projected to be one of the highest grossing opening weekend movies for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I, just like everyone else, have been ecstatic over the release of this all black cast, featuring not just a male protagonist but powerful and prideful black women. The idea that…

  • Get involved to effect long-lasting change

    Student government has always been kind of my thing. Throughout middle and high school, you could find me at the heart of any politically motivated extracurricular — I went to mock government conferences, I ran for executive board, after executive board and I ran my cat for president as a joke — to talk about…

  • Men are responsible for perpetuating rape culture

    Up until this semester, I never thought about how I enabled and normalized rape culture. I figured with training, workshops and even an official partnership with One-Eighty, I shielded myself from being within that category. However, I realize that access to a woman’s person has always been something that I have been told I have.…

  • The gov’t controls your thoughts

    The title of this article sounds conspiratorial. However, it is not an inaccurate description of the relationship between the mass media, government agencies and large corporations on how they collaborate to influence public thought. To begin, consider the comparison of media coverage of the Syrian Civil War versus the Colombian Civil War. Anybody who follows…

  • WAC suffers a lack of accountability

    As I’m approaching the end of my undergraduate career and considering the recent campus climate, I’ve been spending a lot of time reflecting on my time at Wooster: things I did well, things I could’ve done better and times I wish I had made an effort to do more. The last of those three thoughts…