After the election, the WSJ put together this interesting website “Blue Feed, Red Feed” 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In which I land in Hamburg, try to navigate to an Aldi without a map or phone, and generally create embarrassing situations for myself. It’s hard to believe it’s almost been three weeks since I came to Germany–time flies and the last few weeks have really been a whirlwind. Now that I finally have wifi and […]
Sarah the Adventurer 