Free speech is not a free pass Lily Zheng April 21, 2016 7 Comments I don’t even know why we’re still talking about free speech. There are so many things going on right now at Stanford: poor mental health resources, inadequately-paid PHEs, a lack of faculty... Read More »
How Stanford forgot about its mental health crisis Lily Zheng April 17, 2016 2 Comments Content warning: suicide If you were reading the Stanford Daily around this time last year, you might have thought our campus was in a state of emergency regarding students’ mental health. That... Read More »
From diversity to justice Lily Zheng April 10, 2016 4 Comments I was going to write this week’s column on diversity before I realized that I had unfortunately already written that piece back in January (I knew there had to be a reason why it was so easy to... Read More »
When oppression is the punchline: A response to The Stanford Review Lily Zheng April 3, 2016 14 Comments Okay, I’ll bite. On March 31, The Stanford Review published an article that mocked demands made by Who’s Teaching Us (WTU), a student coalition formed around issues of faculty diversity and... Read More »
Trans bodies, cis panic: More than just bathrooms Lily Zheng March 28, 2016 8 Comments I still remember what my high school principal told me in 11th grade when I asked to use the girls’ bathrooms. “We’re concerned,” he said, dropping his eyes, “that some girls worried about... Read More »
Breaking the borders of identity politics Lily Zheng March 8, 2016 1 Comment 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 »