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 »
The failed praxis of positive intent Lily Zheng January 10, 2016 1 Comment Things have changed on campus in my time at Stanford. As student activism flared up around such issues as the Black Lives Matter movement and the Israeli occupation of Palestine, topics of social... Read More »
Oppression soup for the American soul Lily Zheng January 3, 2016 19 Comments Fill large pot with settlers and bring to a boil. Any settlers are acceptable, though English settlers preferred. If settler population of suboptimal religious purity, add two tablespoons of... Read More »
Sustainable empathy amid global tragedy Lily Zheng November 30, 2015 3 Comments My friends often tell me in times like these to stop reading the news. “Don’t go on Facebook,” many of them say, and the suggestion is well-intentioned, for sure. But I know that even if I... Read More »