[in]Visible Magazine

Lana del Rey isn’t real. Or so goes the rally cry of hipsters across the country, complaining that the stage persona of singer Elizabeth Grant is entirely synthetic, designed by corporate masterminds in the music industry to make money off of her beauty, sultry voice, and her ability to appeal to an American consumerist mindset. […]

I attended the Claremont Colleges’ annual Take Back the Night march on April 9 as a member of  Scripps Advocates for Sexual Assault, an on-campus group that runs a 12-hour-a-day crisis warmline, to show support with other advocates and survivors of sexual assault/abuse from the five colleges. We gathered outside Big Bridges as it got […]

  When the high school students in Denver took to the streets to protest the changes to make their history curriculums more patriotic, they were making a point that, as Eugene Debs put it, “intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.” Progress, from this viewpoint, is created by people who actively disagree with the system […]

  “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” -Alice Walker Today is April 22, 2014, or Earth Day, as some people might realize only after looking at their calendars. Founded in the United States, Earth Day commemorates what was the start, according to many, of the environmental movement in 1970. […]