Hashtag breaks the silence: #MeToo
Yellie Torres,
Contributor
November 3, 2017
On the evening of October 15th, actress Alyssa Milano of the “Charmed” television series quoted an anonymous friend on Twitter saying: “If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote “me too” as a status we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.” Milano...
Being a mean girl doesn’t make you a feminist
Kris Stewart, Managing Editor
January 7, 2016
If you were partaking in Twitter After Dark you probably noticed the hashtag #WasteHerTime2016 nestled amongst the trending topics. Tweets using the hashtag described things you could do to girls to waste their time. The hashtag was probably started by some sweaty dude eating chimichangas in his grandma...
Black lives don’t matter, they never have
Haleigh Goree,
Contributor
April 24, 2015
Police brutality against young Black males in America is nothing new, but has reached a new boiling point this past year. On July 17, 2014 police in Staten Island, New York killed Eric Garner by putting him in a choke-hold. On August 9, 2014, police in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager. Out of these ...
