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My term paper for my Judaism Under Crescent & Cross Theology class: Spanning from roughly 950-1250 CE, the Geniza period was the time in which the Cairo Geniza obtained the majority of its four hundred thousand letters, leaflets, and other literary texts of the Jewish community throughout Fatimid Egypt and beyond. Even with such anContinue reading “The Truth of the Matter: A Study of Jewish Women’s Healthcare in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza”

My term paper for my Disciplining the Poor Welfare class: In 2019, U.S. Olympic runner and six-time Track and Field Champion Alysia Montaño made headlines as she broke her contract’s confidentiality clause and informed the world that her sponsor, Nike, paused her contract when she became pregnant. Outraged, Montaño published the now viral New YorkContinue reading “Black Mothers Matter: A Study of Black Pregnant Workers’ Challenges in Receiving Paid Maternity Leave “

The debates on cancel culture have been long and hard, and I in no way, shape, or form want to get in the middle of them. I do wish, however, to offer my thoughts on reconciliation and manners in which to address these instances. Rarely do we hear from the people who have been canceledContinue reading “How to cancel culture, not people”

Life doesn’t turn out the way you expected. I feel like I’ve heard that line twenty times, maybe twenty thousand, but it never fails to cause some stir of emotion in me: sometimes joy, other times sorrow, and even still another feeling – anger. Yeah, no shit, I often think to myself. You think IContinue reading “F*ck “Happily ever after””

In an age where people overuse and self-diagnose mental health conditions like a second language, I go out of my way to distance myself from the buzzwords of “depression,” “codependency,” and “boundaries” and leave the decision up to the medical professionals. Yet after a horrible week of medical procedures, pain killers, and immobility, I laidContinue reading “The God of Trauma… Or Is He?”

Sitting in the darkened interior of my Honda Accord, I lean back and smile, electrified by the semi-religious concert my sister’s best friend and I had just experienced. Despite the fact that I had been driving since early morning and that the clock had long since rolled past midnight, my heart felt full and myContinue reading “Dear Ladies, 2023 Edition”

As a Protestant, white woman who attends an elite, Catholic, primarily white institution and hails from a ninety-eight percent white area, I feel inadequate to even attempt writing a piece on white supremacy in the Catholic Church. And as a Christian, I feel it is my responsibility and a requirement of my faith to speakContinue reading “Maybe this time – Addressing the Church’s crimes in the Americas”

Coming home after your first year of college is one of the weirdest experiences in a person’s life. You’ve just spent a year living on your own with a complete stranger, figuring out an entire new city with people you’ve just met days, sometimes minutes, before, and you’ve learned how to write term papers, conductContinue reading “My Mirror”

When I originally told my group of friends that I was planning on studying abroad this summer, one of the first things that came out of their mouths was, “You can’t wear that in Ecuador.” Looking down, I would burst out laughing, seeing my sports bra and short shorts and recognizing that modesty has neverContinue reading “The Danger of White Feminism in the Non-White World”

You know, God, from the start of time, we’re told life’s not perfect. We’re told in this world we will have trouble, yet we should take heart, for You have overcome the world. Maybe we’ve all just forgotten that last part. Or maybe in the hustle and bustle of the day-to-day grind, we forget aboutContinue reading “Healing Hurts”