Author / Daria Locher
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The #metoo movement as a desire path
We find ourselves in the midst of the Harvey Weinstein trial, stemming from dozens of allegations of sexual misconduct and ultimately producing five counts of criminal sexual abuse. For years, these women, and many more survivors, silently harbored these criminal acts taken against them. That is, until October 2017 opened a floodgate with the viral…
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Russia’s Very Own Search Engine, Yandex
Currently, there are only two countries within which Google is not the dominant search engine: Russia (Yandex) and China (Baidu). Baidu’s success in China is due to the country’s limits on freedom of speech which led to Google’s withdrawal from the country in 2010. However, in every other country in the world (even in North…
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A Photographic Recollection
If you opened my Photos application on my computer, you would see that I have 32,636 photos. And I promise you—I’ve gone through and deleted hundreds (if not thousands) of photos and these are simply the ones remaining. Reviewing and deleting photos is mostly easy—I wonder why I took most of them in the first…
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Bridging The Boundary Of History
One year can pass by quickly. Five years can as well. Ten years seems a pretty substantial period of time, but still stays in recent memory. Multiply this period of time by seven and we get 70 years—the span of time between now and the Holocaust, an event that almost feels hardened into a relic…
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Transcending WUSTL’s Ignorance
“Have you ever had a professor make a joke about your genitals?” Ricki asked, beginning our conversation about Wash U’s “staggering ignorance” concerning the transgender community. Ricki (who asked for her last name to not be published) has now graduated from Wash U. An advocate for transgender students who struggled every day on campus and…
