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Adventures in AthensĀ / Abenteuer in Athen

Ich habe diesen Blogeintrag auf Englisch und Deutsch geschrieben (ich habe nƤmlich kein Leben haha). Lese den deutsche Teil am Ende. šŸ˜‰ In dreary January, I decided I needed a change of scene and wanted to travel somewhere warm. I can’t get over how cheap it is to fly here (19 euros to Milan and […]

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On Reading and Staying Informed

After the election, the WSJ put together this interesting website ā€œBlue Feed, Red Feedā€ where you could see just how drastically different people’s newsfeeds were on a variety of topics. By clicking around, you can observe how easy it would be to form one-sided and ill-informed opinions by limiting yourself to certain news sources. Up […]

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Women, Feminism, and their Bodies

  Part I For most of my high school years I identified rather quietly as a feminist because I did not feel welcome expressing my viewpoints in a community where feminism was the big “f” word, a sentiment I’ve now heard echoed by other women who grew up in similar environments. I never entirely understand […]

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No [poem]

have you ever felt anger so deep it’s sunk in your bones? as if a shot of lightning shoots through your spinal cord shocks your body to stiffen – righteously repulsed igniting everything inside to scream NO.   No to hate, no to sexual assault normalization, no to racism, no to white supremacists, no to […]

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Greetings from Greifswald

Grüße aus Greifswald! Moin!* Let me introduce you to my new home: Greifswald! *(I’ve been told that proper northerners don’t bother to say this more than once, i.e. “moin, moin.” It’s too much effort. ;P ) Now that I’ve been in Greifswald for a few weeks, I’m starting to feel a bit more settled in […]