The Success and Opposition (Say What?) That Was #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies

I shed a few tears this past Thanksgiving break. No, there was nothing wrong with me (although I could cry about the massive amount of work that waited for me at the door upon my return to school). But Black Twitter struck gold once again, and left everyone crying with the trending hashtag #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies. 2015 […]

The Post-Paris #ExMuslimBecause Campaign

Last month’s terror attacks in Paris left the world reeling, with the immediate repercussions being fear, French retaliation and international mourning. Under the radar of debates about Syrian refugees and national security in Western nations, a movement began on twitter with the #ExMuslimBecause hashtag, started by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, or CEMB. Thousands of […]

#DWTS

In honor of the Dancing with the Stars Finale Tonight, I followed the hashtag #DWTS to see what people were saying about this popular TV show. Many of the tweets were from people were voting for on the show, and they used Twitter to express who they were voting for, and also encouraged others to […]

The Hard Reality of Being #BlackOnCampus

Soon after taking my first sociology course as a freshman, I learned that I was more than just a college student. In fact, I’m an African-American female who sits at the cross section of what is often identified as intersectionality. My overlapping social identities, each one being apart of an oppressed group, is what classifies me as such. […]

Move Over for Movember

November did not only kick off the beginning of Thanksgiving feels and festivities, but it also marked the start of the annual mustache and beard trend. Every November, thousands of men spend the month growing mustaches and beards to raise awareness of men’s health issues such as prostate and testicular cancer, poor mental health, and physical […]

#StandWithPP Now and Always

Over the past few months, there has been an even larger rise of anti-abortion activists, who are pushing to shut down Planned Parenthood and thus take health care away from many women. In response, Planned Parenthood has spread the Stand with Planned Parenthood campaign, which has been seen on social media through photo filters and […]

#Hillary2016: A hashtag with positive and negative connotations

Social media has increasingly become an outlet for people to express their political views. With the 2016 Presidential Election less than a year away, people have been Tweeting away, both supporting and bashing their favorite and most hated candidates. But one candidate who gets a lot of attention? The Democrat’s frontrunner, Hillary Clinton. I decided […]

#ClimateMarch

Millions of calendars across the world marked November 29, 2015 as the day of Climate March. Across the globe, people marched in solidarity to raise awareness and hope to make change on the issue of climate change and control on our beautiful planet. Cities like Seattle, Berlin, and Sydney were just a few places involved […]

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