Guest posts
by Bahareh Sahebi
In many ways, Gen Z Iranians are a combination of the very best and the most important learning experiences of their previous generations. They are marked by their perseverance and their refusal to use old modes of protective denial in order to navigate the impact of the paradoxes of life in, as their parents and grandparents did before them. They will continue to form a collective self through their agentic, adversarial approach to effecting change. For all these reasons, “The Women of Iran” are the right choice for Time Magazine’s 2022 Heroes of The Year.
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by Faye L. Wachs
Finalizing my divorce, searching for a new place to live, re-evaluating the possibility of a family—I was stressed out in November of 2009. Then my …
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by Maryam Alemzadeh
On September 13, 2022, a 22-two-year-old Kurdish woman named Jina (Mahsa) Amini was arrested by “Morality Police” in Tehran, Iran, with the charge of defying …
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by Greggor Mattson
Journalists don’t contact me when new bars open, when they set new fundraising records, or when their events send queer joy spilling into the streets.
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by David Burley
Dilapidated homes, unoccupied with boarded windows. Overgrown patches of land, acres of empty parking lots with vines slowly reclaiming the space. Big box …
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by Hilary Silver
Working from home was on a long, downward slide until the 1980s, when sectoral shifts and information technologies triggered a reversal. For a couple of …
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by Victoria Reyes and Sneha George
Intellectual humility is a call for people to read broadly, to seek out knowledge from the periphery and center it in their research, writing, and teaching.
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by Michelle Mueller
Systemic inequality is buoyed by the idea that the underclass—whether they are women or a disadvantaged racial/ethnic group or economic class—holds the greatest responsibility for correcting inequalities. The problem of the underclass receiving the bill for solidarity applies basically anywhere we find a recognizable, lesser privileged group.
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by Ryan SC Wong and Lillian Wynne Platten
Tom Driggers, cc The United States does not care for people’s lives and will forget about Uvalde and Highland …
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by Paul A. Djupe, Amy Erica Smith, and Anand E. Sokhey
Pew Nguyen, Pexels cc A notable feature of academic life is its open-ended nature and the freedom to pursue …
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