​​Anger comes in waves 
By Taya McClease
​     Anger comes in waves. Something happens, we become outraged, and then it starts to simmer.
We’re still angry, but it becomes subdued — until, of course, the next time Trump decides to move forward with another nonsensical, heartless decision, be it claiming that children are terrorism threats or that we should turn away helpless people fleeing war-torn countries. Then we remember to turn the heat back up to a boil. For many of us, myself included, it’s easy to forget to be angry when you are not being directly impacted. As upset as I may be, it’s still easy to categorize something terrible like the travel ban as An Unimaginable Thing That Is Happening To Someone Else in the back of my brain. But the thing is, it’s not unimaginable — it’s someone’s reality. And we have to force ourselves to remember that every day.
     I want you to imagine.

Women’s Day
By Trenity Webber (3/17)
    In Civics class we watched a movie called “Suffragette.” It was about how the fight for women’s rights was really brutal. A lot of times when women’s rights are being talked about, they’re being discussed as a whole, but the movie focused on how each woman is directly affected by the movement. Did you know that in 1912 all men had full custody of children? That means for whatever reason, men had the right to take away children from their mothers. The main character in the movie, Maud, plays an active role in the women’s rights movement. Her husband doesn’t want her to be a part of it at all, and once he finds out she is, he takes her son away. What was terrifying was that she couldn’t do anything about it because, by law, he had full custody. I strongly advise every woman to watch this film to better understand how the movement impacted personal lives.