Sacred Site Slated for Development
Juristac, which translates to the “Place of the Big Head,” is the Amah Mutsun Tribe’s most sacred site, said chairman of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust (AMLT) Valentin Lopez. It’s a landscape of rolling hills in Santa Clara County where the Amah Mutsun once held...
Intercambio
Exchange, or “intercambio” in Spanish, can take many forms. At Intercambio: Just Food/Justamente Comida, an event hosted by Community Agroecology Network (CAN), participants exchanged experiences of food injustice and traded cooking workshops, art and dialogue. “It is really about exchanging your knowledge and experiences and...
Holding Admin Accountable
At the Chicanx Latinx Students Town Hall with Chancellor George Blumenthal on May 9, students brought up issues like lecturer Nandini Bhattacharya’s recent layoff, transparency surrounding the Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) grants and curriculum and white supremacist flyers posted around Cowell. It was an opportunity...
Redwoods Cleared for Development
Andrew Austin, a UC Santa Cruz student, said he felt shocked when he received a text message over spring break saying 53 trees were cut down off of Heller Drive to make way for a new $20 million health and safety building. “The school’s method...
Empowering Survivors, Educating the Public
The streets of San Francisco filled in solidarity in the darkness of night in 1987 to protest sexual assault and violence. Almost 40 years later, this now annual event is known as Take Back the Night (TBTN) and occurs in cities around the world. The...
Privilege of Information
I arrived home after four months of little wifi to “Betsy DeVos and God’s Plan for Schools,” “2,300 U.S. Foreclosures Show a Racial Divide in House Decay,” “Biden, Sanders, Warren: Too Soon for 2020?” “How Social Isolation Is Killing Us,” “What’s hurting California’s budget: The...
Debunking Stigmas Around STIs
College campuses are places where people interact with new environments and ideas. They also provide a space to explore one’s sexuality. “College permits a lot of space for exploration in fields of polyamory and hookups,” said third-year student Maria Vega in an email. As stigmas...
A Conversation with Travis Becker
Travis Becker is just reaching his one-year mark as the director of Cantú Queer Center on campus. Becker is only the second director of the center, which first opened its doors in the late ’90s as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Community and Resource Center. Becker...