Opinion

Every quarter, The California Aggie hires a new group of opinion columnists who write weekly pieces on a topic of their choosing. This Fall, our columnists represent a wide array of beliefs and concerns. Jesús Olivares Guerrero, a senior communications and business double major, turns our attention to Europe. Recently, the continent has been the […]

The Editorial Board says Goodbye By MUNA SADEK Editor in Chief In my final weeks at the newsroom, even the things that were once so off-putting have begun to make it increasingly difficult to say goodbye. The windowless walls which occasionally dulled my spirits have become endearing; The tattered office chairs and couches, in my […]

(Insert Symptom Here): There’s a pill for that Headaches, asthma, fever, viral infections, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, depression, anxiety and any other conditions all seem to have a pill to treat them. Pharmaceuticals have become a normative form of treatment in the U.S. There are advertisements for them on television, the internet and in […]

Closing Sexual assault is a tricky topic to talk about.  It’s a topic that many people feel too uncomfortable to address in the first place. When they do decide to talk about it, they merely keep it at a surface level. Rape is uncomfortable and terrifying, and quite frankly I wish I didn’t have to […]

And in each breath, infinity Look up. A brisk night breeze sends a shiver down my spine as I stand under the the vast expanse of the winter sky. No clouds tonight, just the silhouette of my hand reaching into the midst of the teeming multitude of lights above me. My hand, in those stars. […]

In this last installment of Selfcare Warfare, I want to talk about something that I think is  easily forgotten in conversations regarding privilege and social justice issues. It’s something that I’ve caught myself failing to account for and emphasize in every discussion of oppression I’ve attempted to engage in so far: intersectionality. Coined by black legal […]

Life after Death Grips We begin this week with a shameless reference to what is arguably the best rap-electronica group that’s ever walked our strange planet, but I promise you there’s a really good reason for this. We’ve entered the season of graduation, goodbyes and the resounding sound of a million ‘good lucks’ echoing throughout […]

From an early age, we’re taught about the lasting physiological effects of alcohol and drug abuse. We’ve memorized the different kinds of contraception – they practically told us which colored condom is most enjoyable.  We’ve talked about puberty with uncomfortable middle-aged guest speakers and we’ve watched a live birth amongst a classroom full of trembling […]

At 21, I’ve had a lot of jobs. In-N-Out Burger, Trader Joe’s, selling chocolate milk at a Farmers Market and  a handful of other gigs with local Mom & Pops stores. Working while in college can be difficult due to demands on our time, but I feel lucky about the fact that I’ve had so […]

So far I’ve talked a lot about recognizing and deconstructing behaviors and thought patterns reliant on forms of oppression and marginalisation like racism, femmephobia, sexual entitlement, monosexism and a whole bunch of other -isms and -phobias. But I don’t think I’ve actually addressed how to go about holding ourselves and others accountable for participating in […]

As a member of a minority group in the U.S., I have many relatives with firsthand experience of the structural violence within medical institutions. Structural violence refers to the way the mechanisms of social structures harm or disadvantage people from meeting their basic needs. Such structures would include, but are not limited to, the school […]

Over the last three years here at UC Davis, I have learned a lot about myself, and in particular, a lot about who I want to be. They say college is the time when you really get to know yourself and explore different ways of living in order to figure out where you belong in […]