Meditation of Self

Chiara Bruzzi/ November 28, 2022/ Activism, Guest Writers/ 0 comments

By: Lucia Bruzzi You often hear that as humans we are intersectional beings, we are the creators and the result of our environments. We are the makers and the embodiment of our history, present and future. Within every history, story and myth there is truth. We are the observer of our worlds, and it’s only by sharing how we come to be that we can ground ourselves in our realities. Social biographies are important because they allow the reclaiming of identity to those whose voice was lost in the fabrication of history. But, social biographies also help us understand our

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To Be Invisible: The Neglect of Chronic Pain Patients

Chiara Bruzzi/ November 7, 2022/ Activism, Guest Writers/ 0 comments

By: Mia Scemla Chronic pain is like a blaring alarm clock. Picture your morning alarm abruptly waking you at 6 in the morning; you roll over and snooze the alarm. Then, it goes off again, and again, and again, until you’re awake. You can throw your phone, smash it on the floor, break it into pieces, yet its harassment never ceases. Chronic pain is an experience that only those who speak the language can understand, and I speak fluently. For the purpose of providing perspective, I will bring up matters of my own experience with my chronic pain. In this

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The Ignorance of Anti-Semitism

Chiara Bruzzi/ March 14, 2021/ Activism, Guest Writers/ 0 comments

By: Ben Holcman
The ninth of March was not a day that seemed out of the ordinary. I had stayed home from school due to an illness, and during the day, I was nursing a purple Powerade and listening to “Leave the Door Open” by Silk Sonic on repeat. However, around one in the afternoon, my phone started to buzz repeatedly. I glimpsed over, and it was a Twitter notification reading, “Meyers Leonard utters anti-Jewish slur during video-game play”. I could not believe my eyes. I immediately denied the validity of this statement. However, I then viewed the video, and my jaw dropped. I was both shocked and stunned. To remind any reader of what the situation was, Meyers had complained about “cowards” trying to snipe him in a first-person shooter. He then pauses for a second or two and confidently proclaims,“you fucking…k**e bitch!”. He then carries on playing whatever game he was playing until he takes a phone call, supposedly from his wife, and promptly concludes his stream there. I played that footage constantly for the next five minutes, all whilst my dismay grew.

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Conservative Catholic School: A Toxic Environment

Chiara Bruzzi/ January 15, 2021/ Activism, Guest Writers/ 1 comments

By: Anonymous
What I believe is to be the largest factor in the toxicity of these teachings is misinformation. These people who hold places of authority above students misuse their jobs and often say things that come directly from the misinformation they believe and the opinions they choose to support. The following are some examples of statements (not exact quotes) that I’ve heard first hand that accurately portray the way they use misinformation to express their opinions: “The Christian white man is the most oppressed group in America because they cannot hide behind their race or gender. Nobody defends them.”
“Gays and blacks rule society because they get to blame everything on homophobia and racism.”
“Abortion is wrong, but when they find the gay gene and start aborting all of the gay babies, I don’t want to hear the liberals complaining.”

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I Am Lost

Chiara Bruzzi/ November 14, 2020/ Activism, Guest Writers/ 3 comments

By: Arielle Germeus
Do you have a subconscious bias or discrimination against a group of people? Did you accidentally call a black student another black student’s name even though, if placed side by side, they look nothing alike? Do you assume a black student would act a certain way, know a certain dance, or know a certain slang word? Do you automatically assume that a black student would know a new album was released from a certain artist (more specifically, a hip hop artist)? Do you change your vernacular or persona to fit a certain stereotype when talking to a black student? Do you think before you speak? When you commit these microaggressions, please think about it, please ponder on why that would hurt someone, even if you wouldn’t be hurt by it. Let us all learn from this, because I would like to leave the school knowing this is a community where future black kids can feel accepted instead of lost, like me.

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American Experience

Chiara Bruzzi/ July 31, 2020/ Activism, Guest Writers/ 0 comments

By: Arielle Germeus
Let me tell you about my experience
Wondering if my brother will make it back home if he were ever in a traffic stop
Wondering if I will make it back home if I were ever in a traffic stop
Watching a march occur of an organized parade of people believing I am less than human
Being told to change my hair because it looked unprofessional
Having people touch my hair without my permission because it “looks so soft”
Being denied a job because of my name
Afraid that my fellow students assume I am ghetto because of my hair
Getting several wary looks from my classmates because the discussion is about slavery and I’m
the only black student in the classroom
Getting shot at because I took down a suspected shooter and they thought I was the shooter
Getting shot at because I was in my apartment and a woman thought I was robbing hers
Getting shot at because I told the cops I had a legal firearm in my possession

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Dear Latinos: Dark is Beautiful!

Chiara Bruzzi/ July 10, 2020/ Activism, Guest Writers/ 6 comments

By: Mildred Waxman
Many Latinos use their ethnicity to justify racism, stating, “I am LatinX; it is impossible for me to be a racist.” As a Latina, hearing this non-valid excuse disappoints me. Coming from a minority group that faces oppression does not give one the “pass” to be discriminatory within one’s community or towards other minority groups. With that being said, let me get something clear here, Latinos can be racist, and there is no justification for any racism whatsoever! Unfortunately, not everybody sees it that way. In order to understand the commonality of prejudice amongst Latinos, we must start at the root cause of racism…

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