This past summer, I went on a Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates study abroad service trip to Cusco, Peru. To be completely honest, I chose this country mainly because I wanted to see Machu Picchu and because I’ve always wanted to go to South America as well.
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Nestled in the dirt, under the roots of a date tree
Half of my heart waits
Calling out to me desperately
I’m walking, earbuds in
This past summer, LSA senior Zainab Bhindarwala spent a month in Prague, Czech Republic taking a class on Nationalism, Minorities and Migrations in Eastern Europe.
How did you hear about this study abroad program?
A headline from The Michigan Daily reads “Conservative commentator Steven Crowder critiques erasure of conservative voices on campus.” As a photographer
What were the first meeting notes like for East Wind, the first space for Asian/Pacific Islander Americans at the University of Michigan back in the ’70s?
No one ever returns from intimacy whole.
We always leave a part of ourselves
in the crux of another person’s history,
a bookend to their yesterday.
Almost a week ago, in an assignment for my screenwriting class, each student had to post two ideas and two comments on the class Canvas page for a short script that we hoped to write.
I’m not going to lie, I love Bollywood’s masala movies as much as the next person. But it wasn’t until I watched a non-commercial film that I realized how much my perception of the industry is shaped by those in power.
You’re American but you’re too Black.
You’re Black but you’re too African.
You’re African but you’re too dark.
I’m sick of being told what I am and what I am not.