We Shouldn’t Have To Feel Queer Enough
Discrimination in the workforce. Relocation after graduation. Lack of spaces for queerness in science. Over the last three weeks, this column series explored these challenges faced by the LGBTQIA+ community, all of which stem from erasure. These are a subset of issues I chose to…
Queerness Should have Space in STEM
Keira Delaney is exhausted from constantly trying to educate her professors and fellow neuroscience majors about how their field historically and continuously discriminates against queer and transgender people, like herself. And she is not alone. The lack of LGBTQIA+ representation and community in science technology…
Santa Cruz Joins Lawsuit Against Opioid Manufacturers
Santa Cruz County joined over 30 other California counties in a thread of lawsuits suing 12 opioid manufacturers on May 11, an extension of a national lawsuit heading to federal court in 2019. The lawsuit outlines multiple specific cases of negligence, fraud, racketeering,…
Entering the Workforce as an LGTBQIA+ Person
Jameka Evans lost her job for being queer and refusing to conform to gender norms in 2015. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear her case in December 2017. Evans, like hundreds of thousands of queer and trans people in the U.S., is not…
RAs Disagree with Dining Hall Contingency Plans
Colleges Housing and Educational Services representatives are no longer requiring residential assistants (RAs) to help coordinate “Seat and Heat” programs in the dining halls during the UC-wide strike planned for May 7-9 by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) 3299. Each college…
In Memory of Professor Emeritus William H. Friedland
Professor Emeritus William H. Friedland, founder of the community studies department at UC Santa Cruz, died at the age of 94 in his Santa Cruz home on Feb. 20. Friedland, who spent 22 years at UCSC, dedicated his career to documenting workers’ rights. He collaborated…
Liberation Education Takes the Stage
A teacher teaches, and students are taught. The teacher knows everything, and the student knows nothing — key critiques by Paulo Freire in the “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” Dr. Darrick Smith deconstructed these historically oppressive education models, after which about 150 attendees reassembled them with…
Charges Against Union Demonstrator Dropped
All charges against David Cole, UC Berkeley (UCB) union worker, were dropped by the Alameda county prosecutor’s office on March 1, according to an American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) 3299 Facebook post. UCB police violently arrested Cole for throwing a sign…
A Conversation with Adilah Barnes
Award-winning actress, acclaimed author and one of the most in uential UCSC alumni — Adilah Barnes has returned to the stage to play the part of Mama in African American Theater Arts Troupe (AATAT) and Theater Arts production of “A Raisin in the Sun,” premiering…
#TransInCollege
Nationwide, transgender people are faced with gender norm policing and oppression by cisgender privilege daily. While visibility around trans oppression has increased socially, agency and resiliency within the trans community has received less attention — particularly on college campuses. Dr. Z Nicolazzo made you forget…