Laws are put in place to govern societies and protect their citizens. However, some laws are just plain weird. From the bizarre to the outright ridiculous, these laws seem to defy logic and reason. They can be a reflection of a specific cultural or historical context or a remnant of…
Canada is a queer mecca and is one of the best places you could immigrate to as a queer person. Trust me on this one, as a queer person from a ‘third-world country’, I’ve faced the whole spectrum from queer acceptance and denial. Being queer is hard anywhere around the…
College is one of the best experiences you can have in your young adult life and is one of the most formative times of your life. Even though it is very expensive, most of us have to take a tremendous amount of student loans to afford it. I recently graduated…
We live in the 21st century and the age of the internet; however, some things are still considered taboo and illegal in some parts of the country, be it marijuana, sex work, or even homosexuality. However, for me, all the things I previously listed shouldn’t be illegal, but I’m also a…
America has a long-standing history of racism that it isn’t ready to face and is usually hidden under gobbledygook and is something we need to address in order to be able to recognize the impact that racism and systematic and institutionalized racism still has today. As a queer mixed person…
Most of us know only the basics about African-American history, and this was barely even thought in public schools, except for the rare occasions if you had an activist or black teacher, if not African-American history was relegated to only Black history month and for those who don’t know it’s…
It was noted by a journalist that India is known for being the most dangerous country for women, where a woman is raped every fifteen minutes. The whole world knows about the 2012 fatal gang rape and murder in Delhi. At that time, everyone sympathized with the 23 -year-old victim,…
