It’s that special time of year again: Halloween! While there are many fun, festive traditions of this spooky season, there are some components that are just a little too scary. I’m talking about culturally and socially insensitive costumes that mock people’s lived experiences. All too often we see people dressing up in costumes that stigmatize…
Lately, the gun violence prevention community has faced both important wins, especially in the legislative context, and intensely tragic events, such as the three devastating suicides in the past weeks. Two of these were survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Sydney Aiello and Calvin Desir. The other was Jeremy Richman, founder…
On Friday, September 21, Piper Kerman, acclaimed author and activist, spoke to the Dickinson community. Ms. Kerman used the platform of the Poitras-Gleim Lecture, an annual event celebrating interdisciplinary exploration into societal problems, to discuss the complex issue of justice reform. Justice reform, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, attempts “to reform the criminal…