A Re-Examination of Self-Defense

Don’t walk alone at night. Carry your keys in between your fingers. Always have pepper spray. Pretend you’re on the phone. Look over your shoulder. Always listen. Notice a pattern? Do you see an underlying theme?  It’s not just, “Don’t walk alone at night.” The implication is, “YOU shouldn’t be walking alone at night.” Although […]

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“Trump Won. Get Over it.”

TW: brief mentions of sexual assault/rape “So,” she said with a heavy sigh, “do we want to talk about it?” It was the day after the election, and my normally lively class was silent. As a political science minor, this election was fascinating to me on an academic level. Nobody saw this coming – not […]

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