Opinion

By Elisa Vilanueva @BBELISACATS You have just won your second medal in the Olympic Games, a personal accomplishment and every athlete’s dream. As you hold up your medal, there are photographers surrounding you. You wake up the next morning to check your name in…

By Nicholas Biria @NICHOLASBIRIA Selena Gomez, 24, has officially begun canceling dates on her “Revival” World Tour, following her tragic announcement that her lupus has been affecting her ability to perform. “As many of you know, around a year ago I revealed that I…

How I grew up transgender without realizing it By Jennifer Snook @SIRJID When I was three years old, I was Snow White for Halloween. It was wonderful for me. Snow White was my favorite Disney princess, though I’m not sure why. She wasn’t much of a…

By Ian Jones @IDJONESPHOTOG Last semester I wrote that there needed to be more disabled characters played by actually disabled people in movies and TV, otherwise the portrayal too often rings hollow. (I’m looking at you, Glee.) For years, disability was treated on…

By Jennifer Snook @sirjid Trans people (or, at least, cross-dressers) have been a part of entertainment media for almost as long as entertainment has existed. Most commonly throughout Western history, the idea of a man wearing women’s clothing or pretending to be a woman…

By Ian Jones @IDJONESPHOTOG I guess you could say I have a First World problem. I’ve needed new jeans for a while. I wear custom jeans specifically made for wheelchair users, and I’ve got a limited income, so I’ve needed to buy them…

By Jennifer Snook @sirjid I have been called a lot of things. Some of them are even true. However, a lot of things said about me are simply wrong, and not through malevolence. Most people simply don’t know how to appropriately refer to trans…

By Akansha Rai @AKANSHAPRAI Fashion is a silent language which speaks about the personality of the wearer. It creates the first impression and makes a person noticeable. Each one has a different style in which they like to carry themselves and this variant…

By Ian Jones @IDJONESPHOTOG Trigger Warning: Bullying) A couple of weeks ago, the obituary of my sixth grade teacher appeared in the newspaper. It set off a lot of emotions for me. Perhaps the strangest emotion I felt was ...relief, to be honest. During…

By Jennifer Snook @SIRJID The men’s restroom is an uncomfortable place. I feel cramped by the dark space, I am uneasy doing something so private among those I do not identify with, and the mere thought of using a urinal sets my dysphoria into…