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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


Visiting the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest: a letter to myself on breaking a cycle of intergenerational trauma

Visiting the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest: a letter to myself on breaking a cycle of intergenerational trauma

July 9, 2020

I wrote this letter in response to the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, which I visited in Seattle three times. CHOP, formerly CHAZ, was an occupation protest, located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood near...

Yang: Northwestern Asian Studies courses can marginalize students through microaggressions

Yang: Northwestern Asian Studies courses can marginalize students through microaggressions

February 3, 2020

Racism and discrimination aren’t always overt and loud. They can manifest in more subtle ways, ways that are often ignored or deemed “not hateful enough” to cause emotional damage. The recipient...

Tekriwal: Cancel color-blindness

Tekriwal: Cancel color-blindness

January 16, 2020

The beautiful thing about cancel culture is that one color-blind tweet from a respectable person can suddenly put all of society into perspective. This is because these situations help expose the farce...

Bian: My fight against “whitewashed”

Bian: My fight against “whitewashed”

April 22, 2019

I’ve written a few columns about different aspects of my identity —  mostly, I’ve written about being an Asian-American woman. The opinion desk has empowered me to write about my experiences as...

The Spectrum: Saying Asians aren’t people of color is oppression in itself

The Spectrum: Saying Asians aren’t people of color is oppression in itself

January 31, 2019

The definition of a person of color, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is “a person who is not white or of European parentage.” I’d say fairly early on in my life I figured out I did not...

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