by Sevan Mujukian | Sep 10, 2016 | Essay
There’s a viral and ironic trend that i’ve been lately noticing in and beyond my qtpoc community: my wealthier friends own everything but their class privilege. I lived in northern California for three years and recently moved to San Francisco; I have the privilege...
by Steve Salaita | Jun 29, 2016 | Essay
The system for choosing national leadership in the United States both informs and personifies American exceptionalism. If we don’t analyze how coercion and exclusion influence electoral choices, then we risk sloshing around the system’s self-defeating interior. One...
by Ohan Boodaghians | Jun 1, 2016 | Essay
Math can explain life. I mean this in more ways than one. Sure, it can help explain things like space and time (which is probably magic) and the earth’s beginnings, but let’s be real—I dropped my math and physics major and let that dream fall to the ground faster than...
by Nikolay | Oct 15, 2015 | Essay
When my white european acquaintances say they are broke or poor, I’m usually skeptical and try to process that with a smile. But you know when this gets serious and the smile is no longer appropriate? It’s when our experiences are being erased and our voices...
by thehyephenmag@gmail.com | Nov 2, 2014 | Essay
The thing that no one warns immigrant kids in the U.S. is that if you veer off the beaten path your parents have laid out for you, they say you are betraying your heritage. The thing that no one warned me, as an immigrant taken from my place of birth as a baby, raised...