Identities

Opinion

Identities: That is not my name.

By Sara Shibata | April 15

It’s time for professors to start getting our names right

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Opinion

Identities: Rekindling your inner horse girl as a club sport athlete

By Mari Santos | April 8

How being on a club team helped me love my sport again

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Opinion

Identities: Finding a community within ‘your’ community

By Sara Shibata | February 22

My lack of “sense of home” within an affinity group

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Opinion

Identities: Lo Siento but Yo No Sabo: The unstereotypical Latina navigating through her culture

By Sophia Joseph | April 11

 There is no monolith to being Latina

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Opinion

Identities: Hesitation to try new cultural foods is disrespectful

By Genesis Magpayo | March 20

Food is the connection between various cultures and should be treated with respect

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Opinion

Identities: Western media must stop weaponizing the hijab to further their agendas

By Meliha Ural | February 20

Colonial feminism defines the hijab as the roadblock that stands before Muslim women’s liberation

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Opinion

Identidades: Pensamientos de primera generación: Navegando por primera vez

By Ronaldo Bolaños | October 26

Un estudiante reflexiona sobre cómo se siente ser un estudiante Latinx de primera generación en AU

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Opinion

Opinion: Virginia parents are not just attacking books—they are attacking LGBTQ+ identity

By Ashlyn Peter | November 21

Loudoun county’s public school debate reveals ongoing criticism of the LGBTQ+ community

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Opinion

Identities: Hello, my name isn’t

By Sami Pye | June 12

Preferred names are more than preference, they're a necessity

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Opinion

Identities: My life as a Mestizaje

By Amari Pulido | April 25

The struggle of identifying as both white and Hispanic 

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Guest Columns

Opinion: Champion women who exist in male-dominated spaces

By Aishwarya Rajapur | November 13

Even at AU, women represent untapped potential for change and positive impact

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Opinion

Opinion: Testing the authenticity of our Latinx ethnicities is counterproductive

By Leonor Fernandez | October 25

Who defines how we fit our heritage?

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Opinion

Opinion: ‘India Day’ festival and Viva Kultura performance shows that AU’s administration forgets their South Asian students

By Maya Krishnan | October 16

Administrators have to begin overseeing what’s occurring on its campus and how these events affect student body

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Guest Columns

A brief post-slavery history of African-Americans at American University

By Nickolaus Mack | April 19

Despite petitions, Hurst’s belief in education for all and personal regret for his prior treatment of Blacks, Hurst founded the University as a whites-only institution, without any explicit integration policy, in 1893.

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Guest Columns

Women’s history month is here, and it’s time to talk about sex education equality

By Katherine Marx | March 27

I want to talk about something that isn’t often brought up in discussions about equality: sex education.

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Guest Columns

Op-ed: Campus response to anti-Semitic postering leaves much to be desired

By Steph Black | March 1

As a Jewish student, I am disappointed by the school’s lack of support for our community

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Opinion

Identities: Modern discourse on the hijab is problematic

By Bayadir Mohamed-Osman and Nada Mousa | February 13

Muslim women deserve to discuss the hijab on their own terms

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