I started at JMU in the midst of the pandemic as an at-risk chronically ill student. Each successive semester required me to constantly push myself to the point of crisis just to survive while watching my peers succeed. I was drowning, unable to get help for myself. My friends searched for any help or resources […]
Read More I Asked For Help and No One AnsweredJMU fosters a community of isolation by continuously denying disabled people access. Disabled students are excluded across both institutional and interpersonal planes. This post gives a brief overview into the many access concerns faced by disabled students at JMU on a daily basis. Institutional: These problems require communal pressure and power to enact change Interpersonal: […]
Read More You Don’t Belong HereChild Marriage Banned in Virginia On April 8th, Virginia became the 12th state to ban child marriage. Virginia began the national push to end child marriage in 2016 when the minimum marriage age was raised to 16 without exceptions. Child marriage most often affects young girls. In Virginia from 2000 to 2021, 81% of child […]
Read More Newsroom Roundup 4/22I didn’t vote in the democratic primary. My mail-in ballot sat on my dining room table for a month. I passed by it everyday, and everyday I felt hopeless, clueless. I couldn’t figure out what to do. That ballot became a symbol of political despair for me. Our right to vote was hard won, and […]
Read More Voting Shouldn’t be a moral ConundrumIn the spring of 2022, JMU was hinting that the mask mandate was soon to be obsolete. The campus took it as permission to officially stop caring. In class, there was a boy sitting right next to me, maskless, mask mandate still in place. I asked him to wear a mask. I used a mobility […]
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