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Reimagining the Political Future of Sex Work: An Interview with Bella Robinson
Bella Robinson is the Executive Director of COYOTE-RI (“Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics”), the first sex workers’ rights organization in...
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Mar 18, 20235 min read


Brown, Bodies, Battles: Abortion Activism on College Campuses
When the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision was released on June 24, the stories on my Instagram feed were inundated...
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Mar 6, 20234 min read


Handkerchiefs for Hope
In Buenos Aires, a crowd of protestors dressed in green gathered in the Plaza de Mayo to patiently await the decision of the Argentinian...
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Jan 13, 20235 min read


PILOTing Out of Property Tax
Brown University, like many other 501(c)(3) federally recognized nonprofits, does not pay any property taxes. While state and federal...
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Apr 8, 20225 min read


Advancing Maternal Health Equity: Saving Mothers Locally and Globally
Every year, preventable maternal deaths demonstrate striking disparities within our global health systems. In 2017, 295,000 women died...
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Apr 6, 20225 min read


In the Courts and in the Streets: The Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice and the Right to Asylum
In January 2020, I took the 30 minute drive from San Diego to the Otay Mesa Detention Center. From the winding road, I could see three...
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Dec 14, 20216 min read
End Sexual Violence at Brown
On February 7th and 8th of this year, student activists plastered Brown’s campus with the message: “Brown University has a sexual...
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Oct 1, 20214 min read
Rail Companies: Quit Membership With America’s Power
Last fall I led a research team at Brown’s Climate and Development Lab, which investigated 10 of the country’s largest investor-owned...
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Mar 19, 20215 min read


The Case for The Equality in Abortion Coverage Act
In 2018, 2,435 Rhode Islanders received an in-state abortion and 382 others came from another state to receive an abortion in Rhode...
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Mar 12, 20214 min read
Say Kamala Harris’ Name Correctly – Names are a Form of Power to Black Americans
Several Republican politicians have recently made a point of mocking Vice President Kamala Harris’ name. At his mid-October rally, former...
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Feb 19, 20214 min read


250 Years of Student Activism
Image courtesy of Brown 250+ Timeline & John Carter Brown Library. A Note From the Editors This year, as part of Brown University’s...
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May 20, 20142 min read
The Art of the Possible: Ira Magaziner ’69
By Samuel Rubinstein As any applicant to Brown can tell you, the New Curriculum has become the heart and soul of the University since the...
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May 20, 201410 min read
Digging Up the Foundations
By Perla Montas and Meghan Sullivan “Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks — and Racist Too.” This title...
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May 20, 20144 min read


My Brown-Eyed, Brown-Educated Girl
By Eli Motycka It was by 19th century candlelight, in then-President Elisha Andrews’ office after nightfall, that the first women were...
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May 20, 20143 min read


Make Petitions, Not War
By Alex Lloyd George March 1933 had been a fairly quiet month for members of the Brown University community and its daily paper, the...
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May 20, 20144 min read


Between Brown and Black
By Benjamin Koatz Just over a year before Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, Charles Baldwin, the chaplain at Brown University from...
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May 20, 20145 min read


Good Morning College Hill
By David Chy “Brown University’s long silence can only be considered our approval,” student leaders cried. This sentiment was widely held...
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May 20, 20143 min read
The Rainbow in the Ivory Tower
By Nikhita Mendis & Luke O’Connell As the LGBTQ liberation movement gains attention across the country, Brown remains a longtime cradle...
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May 20, 20145 min read


Assault, She Wrote
By Sara Erkal & Paula Martinez Gutierrez Twenty-four years ago, in 1990, Dean of Student Life John Robinson organized an open forum to...
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May 20, 20143 min read


Speakers When Spoken To
By Hassan Hamade Though former New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly had been invited to give the Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial...
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May 20, 20143 min read
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