The dilution of a movement It’s discouraging when social movements progress slowly, but it’s even harder when they go backward. Today’s “body positive” movement has…
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The future of public education Reading the beginning of Diane Ravitch’s Reign of Error over the last few weeks has been almost eerie. As a…
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Ithaca residents’ efforts to help homeless families Over her past four years at Ithaca College, senior Emma Grabek has encountered many homeless children in the…
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May also be a terrorist Dear Mr. and Mrs. Miller, We hope you and Kevin have enjoyed your first few months at Silver Springs Nursery…
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Let’s not list calories, okay? This summer, the Food and Drug Administration created a regulation mandating that chain restaurants post the calories for all the…
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Clean water is a human right “Clean water is a human right!” This is the chant Nia Nunn decided to teach young Ithacans when it…
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The underreported impacts of climate change When one thinks about climate change, visuals of precious polar bears desperately clinging to ice caps often come to…
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Why undocumented people are unwelcome in the U.S. “This fence has electricity on the top, on the inside and the outside, 220 volts,” Dr. Mike…
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Transwomen fight for admission to female-only spaces “Dear Smith College Board of Trustees and President McCartney, I am writing this open letter to express my…
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Leslie Knope, Primetime Champion
by Alexa Salvato February 26, 2015Network television’s first foray with a feminist lead “I am a goddess, a glorious female warrior, queen of all that I survey. Enemies of fairness…