Reconsidering your donations: the ethical implications of charity

Illustration by Sarah Butler

With a Mother Teresa-esque complex and far more t-shirts then I would ever need, I landed in the Andean city of Cusco, Peru with the best of intentions. Through broken Spanish, I managed to direct the cab driver to the women’s shelter for teenage rape victims and their children (I use teenage very loosely here, […]

Preventing the (self) stigma of mental illness

The stigmas surrounding Mental Illness have become an ever-increasing problem in the United States. According to the National Alliance of Mental Health in 2015, one in five adults in the U.S. (43.8 million) experiences some form of mental illness every year. The same study stated that approximately 10 million out of that 43.8 million experience […]