By Hannah Brown, TIWP student You’re enough.  I know I don’t tell you this as much as I should, and I know I’m just trying to tape you back together.  I understand that society’s constraints are wrapping around your hands and your mind, the words pounding at your temple and tugging on your vocal chords. […]

By Madison Alvarado, TIWP student Justice. It’s a funny thing. We tell ourselves the law is the truth and the law is fairness and of course our system isn’t flawed. The law brings Justice. But then again, it just doesn’t. A rapist sentenced to just six months because the crime he committed only took “about […]

By Madison Alvarado, TIWP student 400,000 breaths sit in silence, held with anticipation under six feet of dirt; those men do not stir. 400,000 hearts holding a beat; a flag and a bullet are their company. 400,000 white marble blocks, each one and the same. The names that are engraved are different but each spells […]

By Hannah Brown, TIWP student No is a powerful word. It can be freeing and empowering. You should not be okay giving more than you are able, and more than they deserve. It can be frightening, to shut someone down, but sometimes it is the only way to open yourself up. When someone is doing […]

By Lizzie Odell, TIWP student The following piece was written in a TIWP class after reading and discussing Eve Ensler’s “Manifesta to Young Women and Girls.” Sit down little girl. Let me tell you something. Stop running for a moment, brush the curls out of your eyes and listen. I’m going to tell you something […]

By Isabel Owens, Guest contributor “Why I don’t need consent lessons” is the controversial title of George Lawlor’s student editorial, which has, since its publication this Fall, been blasted by multiple news agencies, labeled “offensive to women” and “an embarrassment to men” on Twitter, and sparked debate over the necessity of rape education.

By Madison Alvarado, Intuitive Writing Project student What does it mean when you tell a woman she can cast a ballot but she can’t show her face? How does a country consider itself a democracy when every single day it strips 50 percent of its population of their freedoms? It seems funny to me that […]

By Madison Alvarado, Intuitive Writing Project student As issues of ingrained racism, sexism, and homo/transphobia in our world have recently come into light, there has been an aggressive backlash by those who feel as if they are being wrongly singled out as oppressors because they are white, male, straight or cisgender. Those who are defensive on […]

By Bianca Johnson and Veronica Liow, Guest contributors When students at Dougherty Valley High School in San Ramon, CA were asked about catcalling, quite a few had no clue what it was. Those who knew what catcalling was found the backhanded “compliments” to be degrading. Others were shocked to find out that such a form of […]