Erika Turner Associate Editor, News and Politics Erika N. Turner is a writer from Las Vegas, NV and attends school at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She is motivated by the strength and struggle of women and the admiration of those who can stand strong despite...
Never take your friends for granted. As an activist, this will first and foremost forever be rule number one. I have traveled long and far to come to this conclusion, ending up in a crowded Starbucks near a busy Tokyo train station and shopping center, sipping a...
Dear QWOC+ Boston, If there’s anything I regret this summer, it’s the fact that I did not get the chance to give all of you a hug good-bye last night after we celebrated the commencement of my internship with cake, photos, and, of course, Japanese food. However, I...
You ever had those days where you really just cannot get out of bed? Where you’d rather sleep from 8in the afternoon until 8, 9, or 10 in the morning, rather than do anything productive? Or those times when you’ve only slept for four hours, because there just seems to...
In the short blurb beneath my Facebook profile picture, I have a line quoted from Tracy Chapman’s song, “Fast Car.” It reads: “Me,myself, I got nothing to prove.” I chose the line because it embodies how I know I want to feel all the time – like myself. I want to feel...
