The following is a creative prose piece, aimed in part at the first-year undergraduates with memories before Princeton, inspired in part by the politics and…
The Prog
When we talk about political stances on LGBTQ+ issues, a lot of perspectives get tossed together. Often, the distinction between any two finer points won’t…
Insurrectionists are nobody in particular. They are individuals mobilized in their discontent, forced into action by the inaction of others. In that networked individuality, they…
“Mr. Speaker. How dare you usurp this process!” –NC House Democratic Rep. Deb Butler By: Sam Cryan ’22 On 9/11, with most Democratic members absent…
To not give these refugees at least a fair chance of asylum is inhumane. Over 146 nations, including the United States, are party to the 1967 Refugee Protocol that legally affords all refugees the right to seek asylum in any country.
The difference in ownership structure between United States and German soccer, and therefore the degree of freedom of expression for supporters’ groups, is dictated by the underlying economic imperatives of the leagues.
The act of uncovering power, however, cannot just be to bear witness to power’s abuses; what Apostol provides are complex psychological portraits of the subaltern, their oppressors, and the oppressors’ collaborators. It is that duality that is particular to Apostol’s work: a deep understanding of oppressor and oppressed.
I look forward to protests of striving towards the resilient new, rather than ones that seem driven by their bringing of the nightmarish past into the nightmarish present, amplifying the grating power of both to the point of near insurmountability. If the past is not past, when can we move past it?
On the cusp of the 2020 presidential election, with a mixed-bag of outcomes for trans rights issues on state and national levels, what does the future of legal non-binary gender recognition look like? There are three main questions to consider: 1) whether equality will be brought on the nation level or through piecemeal state actions; 2) whether the achievement will come from legislation or court precedent; and 3) what arguments will be used to secure these rights.
Dr. Nasser Abourahme is a Princeton-Mellon/Humanities Council Fellow and a scholar on the intersection of urban studies and postcolonial thought. He has written for a…