Mugwort and Bergamot: Solitary Garden’s Spring Plants Center Healing and Restoration
The concrete walls of San Quentin Prison in Marin County are a far cry from the Solitary Garden. The sculpture overlooks a panoramic view of Monterey Bay and is lined with soft green mugwort and delicately vivacious bergamot, sprouting with warm violet flower buds. These...
“Untouched” Creates a Dreamscape of the Human and Nature Relationship
In one snapshot, power lines run against the background of an empty desert. In another, a tree stands in the middle of the frame. Superimposing the two on a double exposure film depicts Joshua Tree, California, in a dreamlike state. This image is displayed alongside...
Panelists Talk Food Systems Education
Innovation. Privilege. Collaboration. Capitalism. Legacy. These are just a few of the 400 words that were submitted when attendees were asked what came to mind when they heard the term “food systems.” In a conversation about innovation and equity in food systems education, panelists from...
Visualising Abolition Puts the Abolition Feminism Movement into Perspective
Ending mass incarceration, stifling sexual assault and police violence, fighting for equality for all races, genders, and sexualities — are the pillars of the abolitionist feminism movement. As a political philosophy and a practice, abolitionist feminism was founded in the 1830s when antislavery and women’s...
Family Student Housing Upgrades 20-Year-Old Internet
Even though his school and job is virtual, Mykel Brinkerhoff still commutes. Brinkerhoff lives in UC Santa Cruz’s Family Student Housing (FSH) with his wife and daughter. While he juggles being a graduate student and a TA, he has to venture to Rachel Carson College...
Rhiana Gunn-Wright talks Green New Deal, Climate Policy, and Environmental Justice
Years of lead-contaminated water. Thousands of residents owed $600 million from their city. A former governor facing criminal charges for mishandling the disaster. These are all consequences of the Flint, Michigan water crisis. The crisis in Flint is just one example of how systemic racism...
Green New Deal Author Rhiana Gunn-Wright Comes to UCSC for Environmental Justice Event
UC Santa Cruz named one of its colleges after groundbreaking conservationist and environmental activist, Rachel Carson. The university also hosts 15 clubs and organizations dedicated to environmental studies and sustainability. There are 575 students affiliated with its environmental studies department, putting it among the top...
Women’s Filipino movement GABRIELA writes next chapter at UCSC
GABRIELA was founded in 1984, after 10,000 women marched in Manila to protest then-president Ferdinand Marcos’s dictatorial power grab. GABRIELA has since become a global alliance, rallying women in and out of the Filipino diaspora to fight patriarchal oppression and join the National Democratic Movement,...
CruzHacks Accomplishes First All Virtual Hackathon
It happens so easily — your listening to one sad song, it becomes two, soon enough your daily playlist is filled with Adele and Phoebe Bridgers. While evidence shows sad songs can make listeners feel better, they can also intensify depressive symptoms. Moodify, a web...
CruzHacks 2021 Turns Virtual Amidst the Pandemic
Stevenson Event Center will remain empty of the sleepless coders, Red Bull cans, and glowing computer rigs that populated CruzHacks events of years past. The 2021 CruzHacks hackathon will be held virtually over Hopin, allowing for a greater number of participants than in previous years....