How Diet Culture Ruined Self-Care
Self-care is fundamentally about supplying our minds and bodies with food, water, sleep, connection and movement. Self-care is not what diet culture has turned it into. For some of us self-care is waking up on a set schedule, for others it’s just getting out of…
UCSC Health Services Remain Operational
The UC Santa Cruz Student Health Center is open and will remain open during spring quarter. In-person visits are limited to students living on campus who experience acute injury or illness. Everyone accessing in-person care will be screened for fever and respiratory symptoms before entering….
UCSC Fires At Least 74 Graduate Student Employees
UC Santa Cruz is facing an uncertain future after the administration fired dozens of striking graduate students last week. Since Friday, more graduate students have received notice that they will not get teaching assistant (TA) positions this spring. UCSC Executive Communications Manager Marc DesJardins confirmed…
The President is a Serial Abuser
Content warning: This piece contains references to sexual assault. Karen Johnson, E. Jean Carroll, Alva Johnson, Ninni Laaksonen, Jessica Drake, Karena Virginia, Cathy Heller, Summer Zervos, Kristin Anderson, Samantha Holvey, Lisa Boyne, Jessica Leeds, Rachel Crooks, Mindy McGillivray, Natasha Stoynoff, Jennifer Murphey, Mariah Billado, Tasha…
Imagining a Landscape Without Prisons
Eyes closed, legs crossed, I sit in Tim Young’s garden listening to the sounds of birds, feeling the watery rays of a winter sun on my cheeks. I can hear bamboo rustling beside me and smell the mulch beneath me. If I opened my eyes,…
Barrier Methods Beyond the Binary
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are common on all college campuses. Luckily, all are treatable and many are curable. Barrier methods are the best way to protect against STI transmission, and some also prevent pregnancy. Thank you to Student Health Outreach and Promotion (SHOP) for teaching…
You’re Queer? The Cantú is Here
Intersectionality has always existed, but it hasn’t always been named. Today students are leading the way to a more inclusive future, one basic need at a time. The Lionel Cantú Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex Resource Center (the Cantú) was named in memory of UC…
Queering A Doll’s House
The magic of theater is transplanting a seat in a barn into a television studio, into a telenovela, into a home, into a room, into a relationship, into the protagonist’s mind. Xóchitl Rios-Ellis’s adaptation of “A Doll’s House” took place against the backdrop of a…
White Supremacist Messages Deface Campus
This week, unidentified vandals left white supremacist messages scrawled across campus. White chalk lettering and posters bearing the words “it’s ok to be white” appeared in residential colleges and academic buildings. “White nationalist messages left recently on our campus try to break the foundation of…
Capitalist Suprem(e)acy
Often, appropriation is an indispensable component of art. What would Marcel Duchamp’s portfolio be without the readymades? Who would Andy Warhol be without a Campbell’s tomato soup can? The history of art is one of reception, revision and recreation. But there are instances when creative…