We need to focus on building our own community before we move into another. Graphic by Reece Butler. SADIA KHATRI | OPINION COLUMNIST | sskhatri@butler.edu “I’m moving to Canada!” Following Donald Trump’s presidential victory, perhaps you have heard or seen sentiments about moving elsewhere and away from America. When conservative victories — particularly when Trump…
Putting the death penalty to death
“Our current criminal justice system is focused far less on progress and improvement and is instead concerned with forms of punishment that are wholly unproductive.”
Frightful fits
“Whatever your reason for dressing up may be, it better not be one of these that we all have decided we are sick and tired of seeing every year.”
“Abbott Elementary” and the charter school debate
The show’s creator Brunson does not shy away from discussing the complexities of charter schools and their potential harms. Through the fun medium of a sitcom, “Abbott Elementary” raises important concerns about what role charter schools truly play within the American school system.
Embrace intersectional feminism
“For feminism to be truly liberating and freeing, it must impact all women. It is not enough for feminism to only benefit and serve the interests of a small and privileged sect of women.”
The incarceration exception to freedom from slavery
“When many prison laborers are forced to work, can we earnestly argue that emancipation from slavery fully exists?”
Islamophobia in language: the fear of jihad and Sharia law
These phrases are rumored to be scary, but are they really?
Reject passive and dehumanizing language
“When language kills, we must either resist colonized, dehumanizing language or choose to be complicit.”
Reject racism this Ramadan: Islam and anti-racism
Islam is staunchly anti-racist, but racism continues to persist in Muslim communities.
Stop weaponizing your white tears and guilt
“When white tears are shed, bodies of color pay the price.”