Articles by wordsjadewrote
For far too many women across the world, enduring street harassment is a fact of life. From getting catcalled to groped to followed home, there’s a good chance that even if
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March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments
Arizona resident Guadalupe “Lupita” Garcia de Rayos made headlines late last week as the possible first person deported under President Trump’s recent
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February 14, 2017 // 0 Comments
Nearly 8 years ago, one of then-newly-inaugurated US president Barack Obama’s earliest executive orders reversed the global gag rule, a rule banning non-governmental
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January 31, 2017 // 1 Comment
On the last day of 2016, it was almost 6 in the evening in New York City, 3 pm in Los Angeles, and 11 pm in London. Helsinki and Cape Town had just finished ringing in the
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January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments
The proclaimed false-news epidemic hitting the internet is hardly news at all. From clickbait to satire to tabloids, purposefully-misleading headlines and articles have been
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December 5, 2016 // 0 Comments
While most of the Western world agonizes over the presidency of Donald Trump (and rightfully so), in southeastern Asia a highly controversial president nicknamed “Trump of
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November 14, 2016 // 0 Comments
In Arabic, the curse “go to Gaza” is synonymous with “go to hell.” Indeed, The Gaza Strip, with its long history of military conflict and economic difficulty,
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November 1, 2016 // 0 Comments
After thousands of worried fans signed petitions and took to Twitter with the hashtag #MakeMulanRight to protest Disney’s whitewashing of Mulan’s live-action remake, the
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October 17, 2016 // 0 Comments
The month is October, and already schools around the nation are in full swing. Thousands of American high school students are piling up coursework from their AP classes,
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October 3, 2016 // 1 Comment
Stanford rapist Brock Turner, who made headlines earlier this year when he was sentenced to a mere 6 months for 3 counts of sexual assault (all of which he was found guilty
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September 5, 2016 // 1 Comment