Author: cmccolgan

When it comes to the idea of an outsider identity’s the first thing that comes to mind when hearing such a term is a facade. A facade the aptest way of describing it, because your outsider identity isn’t truly your true self. It’s your shield you put up against the world around you in order Read More …

Kenji Yoshino speaks about the act of passing and covering in society in both the video we watched along with his article “Pressure to Cover.” The two have an do share similar ideas, even having some quotes said verbatim from the article that appears in the video. Keeping in mind, the quote that Yoshino quotes Read More …

The Pauker study that was mentioned in Velasquez-Manoff’s article “Want to be less Racist? Move to Hawaii.” focused on the idea of essentialist views being presented in children from ages four to eleven in two completely different environments. Pauker looked to test her hypothesis with a sample group from Massachusetts and another sample group from Read More …

Velasquez-Manoff presents a side of Hawaii that a majority of mainlanders have never really gotten a chance to understand or relate to. The title of this article really hits it out of the park in describing what is to come and Velasquez-Manoff really goes into his ideas based on racial attitudes in Hawaii and the story behind Read More …

“Bad Feminist” can be described as a piece that a lot of women can relate to. Navigating around the complex subject of feminism is difficult, especially in a society that likes to condemn those that find the meaning behind it empowering and comforting. This type of environment is spoken about throughout Gay’s work and she Read More …

Michael Chabon does a beautiful job of displaying the character and the personality of his son Abe in this piece. What Abe possesses, something that a majority of people aren’t able to possess even as grown adults is a sense of self-assurance in their own skin. At just the age of 13 years old this Read More …