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How can beauty pageant contestants and feminists coexist? Beauty Pageants are both loved by participants and despised by some feminists. Many might call out a successful woman participating in a beauty contest for being a “bad feminist”; Miss Colombia 2018 […]

The liminal, or in-between identity, experience Photographer Sue Stevenson didn’t mean to evoke emotion for in-between identity, but she has. In visualizing what she considers crisis in mid-life, the images also convey what some may describe as the feeling of […]

The Nature of Bosnia Last month I took a road-trip with my family through the Balkans. Driving through the mountains of Bosnia was incredible. I’ve been on some pretty adventurous road trips in my lifetime, but the scenery, nature, and […]

What do you notice that’s different? ¿Qué notas en las calles o en casa? My professors would often ask this question when discussing Spain’s political issues and cultural norms. My fellow classmates, like me, were also study abroad students and came […]

Colombian recording artist J Balvin (Jose Alvaro Osario Balvin) has become one of the most popular artists in the world in his short career, and his story is unlike many musicians in the modern era of music. Born to a […]

Protesting has resurfaced as a way to resist what the American Government is doing. In fact, according to Catherine Caruso at Boston University, there has been 4,294 protests between Jan. 20, 2017 and Oct. 11, 2017. The data was collected […]

Love, Power and Justice At Colorado State University’s annual Diversity Symposium, speaker Tim Wood discussed love, power and justice and how they relate to human morals and how these three concepts allow for the flow of love which in turn, […]

Learning a new language requires motivation, many mistakes, repetition and energy. The region where I live, Andalucía, has a very strong accent. Spanish words that I have known since elementary school became foreign to me until I was able to […]