We live in an age where all activism efforts fit neatly into a cropped and hashtagged box. Justice trends for only 24 hours before vanishing beneath a new viral sound. In this era of performative compassion,...
Shelby Yeh, Arts and Entertainment Copy Editor
• December 10, 2023
Simon says close your eyes. Simon says push this button, that button. Simon says consume, copy. Simon doesn’t have to tell us twice.
Yesterday, I learned that more than 13,000 people have been killed...
On Oct. 3, a video circulated on Twitter, and eventually became viral, of a young Nigerian man being brutally shot by a SARS officer. Over a period of five days, the video amassed 10,000 retweets, with...
As an increasing number of Americans have begun to spread awareness about the injustices of our country, there has arisen a new group who has learned to capitalize on this “trend”: performative activists.
The...
The Black Lives Matter movement started marches across the country, made national headlines and positively changed the political backdrop of the United States, immediately following the death of George...
