featured links:
two masterpieces by Andrea Long Chu:The Free-Speech Debate Is a Trap"...a number of powerful people in America currently believe that talking about freeing Palestine could actually end up freeing Palestine, and it is this cascade of actions that they are ultimately trying to suppress. This tells us something very important: They are afraid. The question is not whether intifada, which means “uprising” in Arabic and invokes both civil disobedience and violent resistance, is a threatening term; if it were not threatening, the House would never have convened an entire hearing about it. The only question is whether threatened parties — the Israeli apartheid regime, American foreign-policy hawks, all the board members and lobbyists and donors and hedge-fund managers — deserve to be threatened.They do."Freedom of Sex: The moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies"...what we today call gender-affirming care is part of a larger history of sex-affirming care governed by strong normative ideas of health, productivity, and moral worth. Many of the treatments in this field are broadly uncontroversial today: breast reconstruction following cancer, vasodilators for erectile dysfunction, antiandrogens for hair loss and hirsutism [...] It is the purpose of sex change, and not the change itself, which determines its acceptability. This is why sex-affirming care has historically entailed both the withholding of sex change from some and enforcement of it for others [...] it should be clear by now that when members of the anti-trans movement argue that sex cannot change, what they really mean is that sex shouldn’t change except in accordance with social norms."
writing portfolio
2023** **
"Second SJP event addresses ‘pinkwashing’ of Israel"** **
"Retail concessions workers strike at Ontario International Airport"** **
"Palestine 101 Recap: ahead of campaign, SJP starts the year with a history lesson"** **
stone & flow** **
2022** **
"The Myth of Drug-Laced Halloween Candy"** **
"Exit Interview with Dr. Emily McCarren"** **
"For Rigorous Education, Choose Interdisciplinary Courses"** **
2021** **
"Interview: Is College Admissions Evolving Beyond the College Visit?"** **
"Local Teens Impersonated in Instagram Scam"** **
"“Devious Licks” Raise Questions About Student Wellbeing"** **
"As New School Year Begins, Academy Students Struggle To Adapt"** **
ka wai ola spring 2021:
Bricks, fracture, Summer Camp/Do You Remember?** **
2020** **
"Facial Recognition on Campus, Friend or Foe?"** **
"From Bingham to Wilcox, Telling The Whole Story"** **
"Op-Ed: Time To Do Something Real"** **
for pre-2020 writing, click here** **
not my writing but I'm in it** **
"7C community members continue to organize, release statements regarding violence in Gaza"** **
"5C students mourn, express fear over violence in Gaza and Israel"** **
"Most valuable staffers recognized at Hawaii High School Journalism Awards"** **
"Students Take the Lead in Sustainability"** **
"call to action: community calling"** **
"Schools Use Software That Blocks LGBTQ+ Content, But Not White Supremacists"** **
"Remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg"** **
other neat stuff I made
There, Where We Live, a critical graphic reimagination of a 1917 Jewish Bund election poster, intended to provoke thoughts and begin conversations about the relationship between Jewish people and the places we live** **
The Tools to Those Who Can Use Them, an online exhibit of student work related to the theme of responses to colonization, caste, and the construction of race in America** **
Various Wikipedia articles, of which several have been peer reviewed as "good articles" including Flora Kaai Hayes, Frente de Liberación Homosexual, and Gigi Ibrahim