In late August of 2026, social media erupted with fascination over the Lindsay Clancy trial. Within a single month of the trial’s start, more than 164,400 TikTok videos were uploaded under the trending #Clancy hashtag. The former labor and delivery nurse, charged with three counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of her children – […]
Read More Whose Stories Are Told? Representation & Bias in True-Crime NarrativesFeature cover image from Unsplash Recently, I’ve been watching the hit HBO Max show The Pitt, and I know this show is fictional, I thought to myself “I wish these doctors were as understanding as doctors in real life.” This makes me think of how often women aren’t taken seriously with their medical concerns. It […]
Read More Hysteria: The Lingering Bias in Women’s HealthcareToday is the first day of the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup in Qatar. It is estimated that Qatar spent over $229 billion in hosting the tournament and over 3 million tickets were sold for the tournament. The World Cup is held every four years with the men’s and women’s cups occurring in consecutive years (i.e., 2018 […]
Read More the world cup: a practice in inequality“Corporations take advantage and tokenize marginalized communities in order to make consumers feel better about using and buying their products, while still exploiting workers from those same communities.”
Read More Capitalism Won’t Save UsThis ShoutOut! is dedicated to the Board of Education in Henrico County- perpetuating the current system of inequality and hence making our generation’s students even more ignorant by the school day! Recently, a video was presented to students as part of a first-ever Black History Month program at Glen Allen High School in Henrico County, […]
Read More Henrico County’s Censorship: Kids, it’s OK to be IgnorantHello, Shoutout! readers! If you’re reading as a JMU student, you know the semester is coming to a close, and you’re probably reading this telling yourself that this is a break from studying, but you’ve been online for like four hours.. (maybe that’s just what I do?) But the point is, this is my last […]
Read More Intersectionality, Classism, and Kanye WestHello Readers! This week, I wanted to talk about something interesting that hits a little closer to home. The JMU home that is. I was looking through articles on The Breeze’s website and came across a headline that read “Faculty Salaries, Same-sex partner benefits discussed.” Immediately, that grabbed my attention and I became excited that […]
Read More President Alger speaks on same-sex benefits for JMU facultySo while enjoying my daily dosage of Friends before bed, I had come across this scene of Monica and Chandler. The scene is in regards to the couple arguing about Monica flirting with other men. Hearing Chandler’s character and response to this argument made my mind begin to wander. And so I ended up in a […]
Read More So you can flirt, but I can’t?So we’ve all seen those videos on television that feature starving kids in Africa, skin and bones, sunken cheeks and even with flies in their eyes. Don’t get me started on the cheesy Sarah McLachlan songs in the background or maybe that’s the SPCA advertisements of injured animals but that’s besides the point. I will […]
Read More Money Can’t Buy Happiness