The Story In mid-April, a James Madison University senior named Natalya Paris posted a TikTok exposing the university for its lack of action surrounding a racist experience with her roommates. The story begins with Natalya and her boyfriend returning from a trip to UVA around 11 p.m. Due to pre-existing tensions with her roommates, Natalya […]
Read More Is Racism Not Enough? Do Better, JMU.A lot of women have a digital diary on their phones in the form of their menstrual tracking app. Seriously, it gets all the intimate details of your life: when you masturbated, how often you have sex, moods, your feelings, if you’re trying to have a baby and when your period comes. As women, we […]
Read More Tracking Your Period… Or Tracking You?If my best friend, who is the same age as me, born just two weeks apart, the same major, the same values, and even the same shade of blonde if you want to get specific, goes to school at Auburn in Alabama and needs healthcare, and I need that same healthcare here in Virginia, why […]
Read More Access Should Not Depend on Your Zip CodeIn February 2026, a bill straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale made its way onto the floor of the Illinois Senate when Neil Anderson, a Republican state senator from Andalusia, introduced perhaps the most extreme anti-abortion bill in recent years. Under SB3572, also referred to as the Abolish Abortion Illinois Act, fetuses and embryos would […]
Read More Modern-Day Handmaid’s Tale: Illinois Senator Says Women Should Get Death Penalty for AbortionsFor far too long, women have been told to wait: wait for their rights to be respected, wait for their autonomy to be acknowledged, wait for their voices to be heard. The 4B movement rises from this issue, drawing inspiration from its roots in South Korea, where it came from a want to reject the […]
Read More Are We Overlooking Something in the 4B Movement?What is Roe v. Wade? This law was established in 1973 when a woman in Texas who went by the fictional name Jane Roe to protect her identity, filed a lawsuit against Henry Wade, a district attorney in Texas. She challenged the existing law in place that made it illegal for a woman to have […]
Read More After roe overturned: abortion policies in the us“Virginia is the last southern state without restrictions of abortion rights after the 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade” Following the General elections on Tuesday November 7, 2023, we saw a massive win for abortion rights in not only Virginia but other states as well. Since the over turn of Roe v. Wade in 2022, […]
Read More Big win for abortion rights in VACo-authored by FemmeInAction and ThisGirlLovesCollegeBasketball Local Since the pandemic, millions of dollars in American Can Rescue Plan funds have gone to help stabilize childcare centers across the country but those funds ran out on Saturday, September 30. Like many others, the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Child Day Care Center received COVID relief money, and with that no longer […]
Read More Newsroom Round-UpThe World Health Organization views health care as a fundamental human right. If this is true, why can rural hospitals not keep their doors open? Between 2010-2022 more than 130 hospitals had to close due to a lack of funding and limited healthcare professionals. There are many causes of this, including the COVID-19 pandemic and […]
Read More rural areas need hospitals tooLOCAL NEWS On March 6th, Irvo Otieno was killed by Henrico police officers and Central State Hospital employees during the hospital’s inpatient process. During a time of mental health distress, Otieno was met with aggression, criminality, and excessive force by officers and employees. Before being brought to the psychiatric institution, Otieno spent 3 days in […]
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