What we should have had: Reflections on frosh sex ed Lily Zheng October 6, 2016 0 Comments Content warning: sexual assault Today is the last day of Beyond Sex Ed: Consent and Sexuality at Stanford. This 90-minute program, repeated over three days for the entire class of frosh and transfers,... Read More »
Once more, the double life Lily Zheng September 28, 2016 0 Comments It’s a little hard being at Stanford when the world is falling apart. This summer, we watched as thousands upon thousands of Indigenous people and communities gathered to oppose the Dakota Access... Read More »
Life after finals: Nurturing a sustainable activism Lily Zheng May 30, 2016 1 Comment I still remember the way my middle school teachers always spent the last week of school warning of the perils of summer. “You’ll forget everything!” they threatened, and we students always... Read More »
Embracing the contradictions of change from within Lily Zheng May 23, 2016 2 Comments I headed into the keynote address at the Graduate School of Education’s SWAYWO conference this past weekend fully expecting a non-controversial, vaguely inspirational talk on the importance of... Read More »
Why your brave space sucks Lily Zheng May 15, 2016 26 Comments I can’t recall how long it’s been since I’ve heard the term “safe space,” but it’s clear to me that it has fallen out of favor among educators and academics. I remember when I started... Read More »
The endless (vicious) cycle of awareness campaigns Lily Zheng May 8, 2016 4 Comments Awareness campaigns – efforts to inform an audience on the existence or complexity of an issue or demographic – are student activism’s bread and butter. For every issue, it seems, we students... Read More »
Activism and Admit Weekend: Reflections on the future Lily Zheng May 1, 2016 0 Comments April 23, 2015. It’s midnight and I am chalking the words “#BlackLivesMatter” in block letters in front of Florence Moore hall. There are many of us — a coalition of activists from every... Read More »
Frankly, on suicide awareness Lily Zheng April 24, 2016 2 Comments Content warning: suicide, self-harm I know I have the reputation of always seeing the glass as half-empty. In the three years I’ve written for the Stanford Daily, that’s been the hallmark of my... Read More »