Hey Toxicity! Let’s break up.
Story and Illustration by Sam Joson
February 25, 2020
I was 16 the first time someone I was dating didn’t take no for an answer. But I stayed because — at the risk of sounding like I’m defending them — I generally didn’t feel unsafe. Underappreciated and neglected? Yes, but not really unsafe. Somehow, I’d convinced myself that the absenc...
Fertility Awareness Method?…Bueller?
Story by Clara Applegarth, Illustration by Paige Acosta
February 25, 2020
While women continue to make impactful changes in 2020, with more females getting elected into Congress and having better representation of bodily anatomy prompted by protests, many women continue to stick with the pill as their choice of hormonal birth control. If we can break the glass ceiling in ...
Cosmic Caveman
Story by Ryce Stoughtenborough and Photos by Maddison October
February 24, 2020
Brett Vanhorn was sitting in his Honda Fit Sport on the corner of Castro and 18th Street. He was shoveling globs of peanut butter into his mouth with the help of the handle of a plastic fork. Vanhorn is an artist, and it is not hard to tell from his car. Lilac, yellow and electric green paint smudge...
Does social media harm us?
Janae Rodriguez, Staff Writer
February 5, 2020
From the time we wake up to the time we lay our heads at night we are bombarded by filtered vacation photos, edited engagement pictures, blurred selfies and sometimes news. Social media has become the center of the world. It can be hard to weed through what is real and what is fake — which can t...
We Are Not Inspiration Porn
David Sjostedt
September 30, 2019
It’s the first day of school, and the hallways filled with students are especially loud. While most students don’t spend months preparing in advance, some have spent much of their academic careers learning how to properly advocate for themselves in the classroom. Higher education for people wit...
No Student is an Island
Izzy Alvarez
September 21, 2019
To walk into room 354 in Burk Hall is to walk into an oasis of tranquility. Snacks and drinks are perched next to the door for students who might have missed breakfast. Desks are arranged in a circle so everyone is seen. An ambient light shines in the corner of the room and white orchids in a tall vas...
Roasts and Robots: How Automation Might Change the Way We Eat
Joshua Chan
May 21, 2019
On Market Street in San Francisco near the Montgomery BART station, there’s a tiny, sleek storefront with a black sign reading “CAFE X.” It blends in with pretty much every other piece of brutalist, almost oppressively gray concrete architecture around it. At first glance, it looks like its almost...
Editorial: Words in Red
Amelia Williams
May 16, 2019
The Monday morning pro-life advocates came to campus, I got my period. I had been anxiously awaiting its arrival for the last two weeks, and smiled as I looked down at my bloody underwear. I am an unwed, twenty-four-year-old living at home trying to finish my bachelor’s. I am no one’s idea of a mother....
Need an Emergency Lyft?
Megan Jimenez
May 14, 2019
Nothing says ‘welcome home’ more than throwing up a week’s worth of food. Sheila Huitron was puking her guts out for days, upon her return to San Francisco after a couple weeks’ long vacation to Indonesia. “I couldn’t keep any food down at all,” she stresses. “Because it lasted for...
The Cultural Taboo of Mental Health
Joshua Chan
May 3, 2019
Hillary Peregrina didn’t know what to do with her feelings of depression when she was fourteen. As a Filipina-American teenager, Peregrina felt like she didn’t have a say in her mental health, and didn’t seek help for it until she was twenty-two-years-old. “I pretty much recognized from when...
Paper to Electronic
Ingrid Mera
April 30, 2019
Slouched on a few chairs outside of the empty shopping center, a group of young men sat laughing, cracking jokes as people walked past them. Smoke filled the air around them in heavy grey-white clouds. “Here,” said one of them as he handed a small, black vape pen to his friend sitting next to...
Ruthless and Toothless
Amelia Williams
December 26, 2018
When you were young and green and didn’t yet earn an allowance or have a cellphone, losing your teeth was a rite of passage and fiscal gain. It could be bloody, and painful and weird—or worse, swallowed—but holding up a little piece of yourself that would somehow transform into a five dollar bill...
