During the fall of 2018, I interned at the Global Village Project (GVP), a non-profit specialty middle school for refugee girls who have had limited or interrupted formal education before coming to the United States. The students are between the ages of 12 and 18, come from all corners of the globe, and together speak…
Who Teaches Whom: Identity and Representation in Education
About halfway into the Democracy, Diversity and Education class that I took at Agnes Scott College, we welcomed representatives from the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), a network of highly regarded Charter schools, to speak to our class. The representatives spoke passionately about how their schools serve under-resourced communities and propel their students to college….
Darling, Me Too: Feminist Approaches in Delta Rae’s “Hands Dirty”
I wrote the following song analysis for my “Contemporary Feminist Theory” course. Delta Rae is a powerful folk rock band who do not shy from inserting political themes in their music. On October 19th of this year, they released an anthem against gender inequality called “Hands Dirty” as a call to arms in…
10 Things I Hate About You and the Feminist Hijacking of Shakespeare’s Shrew
When I was studying at the University of Hyderabad, I took a course titled “Gender and Translation,” an interdisciplinary course through the linguistics department. The course investigated the ways that the gender of the translator, as well as gendered features of the original and target language, impact a translation. This is the essay that I…
Come Lime with Me: My Global Journey to Trinidad
One of the many unique experience that Agnes Scott College offers to students is the opportunity for every first year student to participate in a global learning journey. The purpose of this semester long course, which culminates in a week long excursion, is to explore the concept of a “global citizenship,” or expanding ones conception…
A Reflection on Studying Abroad in India
“So, how was India?” they ask me, smiling, unaware that their well-meaning small talk has just thrust me into an impossible position. Try as I might, I have yet to find a way to condense every breathtaking, and confounding moment of my five month study abroad semester at the University of Hyderabad into a thirty…