On December 15, 2017, Comcast unveils their new Super Fast Deluxe Internet Package- complete with unrestricted internet speeds, Netflix subscription, and complete social media access- all for the low, low price of…
There is nothing sexier than a bigot, amiright ladies? Blake Shelton was recently chosen as this year’s ‘sexiest man alive’ by People magazine, and for a solid second we all wondered how…
By Kassel Franco Garibay Not for the first time, this week I had a white straight man try to define my experience as a Mexican living in the United States for me.…
Once more, white people have provided the perfect example of abuse of privilege. The University of Hartford has been under fire this past week after a white freshman student bragged on Instagram…
Every day we have to make conscious choices in order to be a good human being. I wish it were easy, that being a woke, intersectional feminist came naturally to me, to…
Earlier this month a public school in Biloxi, Mississippi, pulled “To Kill a Mockingbird” from their eighth grade reading list. This is not the first time that Harper Lee’s 1960 novel has…
Coming Out is a dangerous and detrimental social construct created by and for the pleasure of straight people. National Coming Out Day is a cheap and shallow opportunity for self-declared allies to…
By Kassel Franco Garibay Matthew Yglesias from Vox wrote an on-point article about what Puerto Rico means in the context of a Trump administration. Yglesias’ message is concise, strong and utterly terrifying:…
As if the current political climate wasn’t stressful enough for the immigrants living in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security has once again made things more difficult for immigrants. In…
By Kassel Franco Garibay It was nearly 2 a.m in the Acorn office when my screen lit up with the New York Times notification. Mexico City, the beautiful city I grew up…