Breaking the borders of identity politics Lily Zheng March 8, 2016 0 Comments Dead week at Stanford always seems to me to be a strange time of tension. Students fill the libraries with terse silence, stacks of dishes become semi-permanent fixtures in our rooms, hundreds of... Read More »
The column where I get offended Lily Zheng February 28, 2016 16 Comments We live in a time where the President of the United States calls college activists and progressives “coddled and protected from different points of view.” Comedians like Jerry Seinfeld... Read More »
The intersectional slut(walk) Lily Zheng February 21, 2016 6 Comments About a month ago, I was asked by email to participate in a student panel for Stanford SlutWalk 2016. “SlutWalk,” I thought. “Oh no.” SlutWalk originated as a street march and rally at... Read More »
Love and sex on a messy campus Lily Zheng February 15, 2016 3 Comments Well, Valentine’s Day is over, folks. Over the past few days I’ve been thinking about intimacy on campus – not just intimacy in terms of just sex, kissing or dates, but instead as a larger... Read More »
A new president for an expired status quo Lily Zheng February 7, 2016 9 Comments By now most of us have heard the news: Stanford’s 11th president, selected by the Presidential Search Committee after “six months and thousands of hours reviewing prospective candidates in a... Read More »
When ducks drown: shifting paradigms of mental health Lily Zheng February 1, 2016 0 Comments It’s around that time of the year again – endless weeks of midterms, steadily growing alarm as the overdue assignments pile up, looming deadlines of papers and tests, not enough sleep and too many... Read More »
Diversity, or: liberation lite Lily Zheng January 24, 2016 2 Comments It was a few days before Transgender Day of Remembrance 2015, and a number of organizers and I were discussing the demands we planned to make on the day of. Read More »
A year since the bridge: Reflections on the Stanford 68 Lily Zheng January 18, 2016 9 Comments On Monday, January 19th, 2015, sixty-eight protesters were arrested on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge after an MLK-day action of nonviolent civil disobedience. Fifty-seven of us were cited and released... Read More »
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