Marisa Zeppieri is a journalist, blogger, and founder of the non-profit LupusChick. Marisa works and runs the non-profit all while being sick with Lupus herself. The chronic autoimmune disease causes your immune system to...
I routinely observe small acts of kindness in my college campus cafés, where a combination of hunger, fatigue, and hurry can make students forgetful and inattentive. But a little bit of care and a...
From the historic town of Thomasville, Georgia there are many places to visit, different places to eat, and extraordinary people to greet. Out of the thousands that I have seen in Thomasville, there is...
When I tell people about my charity Rainbow Pack, what we do, and why we do it, I usually get an, “Aww that’s so sweet.” But that isn’t the reaction that I want people...
February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD). While there is a National HIV Testing Day, celebrated on June 27 each year, NBHAAD commands a particular importance not only in the larger HIV...
Political polarization can dilapidate things fundamental to our well-being as a collective species: compassion, empathy, and too often, kindness itself. As a highly politically active, activism-oriented seventeen-year-old amidst our current national divisions, I am...
It’s 3:00AM, and I’m scrolling on my laptop passing through a range of numbers: 4.8%, 7.9%, 14.1%. The next day, I’m still scrolling, now just past a new set of percentages. Since the start...
Sometimes the world just seems like a wallowing pit of despair: families are torn apart, children starve, and innocent people die. So in a universe in which bad things happen to good people, why...
According to RAINN, about 1 in 4 undergraduate women, and 1 in 20 undergraduate men, have experienced at least one instance of sexual assault or rape while in college. For transwomen and bisexual women,...
Danielle de Bruin, a fourth-year sociology student at UCLA, is leading the fight for body positivity as director of Body Image Task Force (or BITF, for short). Just this past February, BITF launched a...
