An Ode to Self Care
Shaun Jackson Staff Columnist Recommended Listening While Reading: Handle Me – Robyn Trying to get back out on dating apps after a two-year relationship. I was talking to my friend about sexual discrimination and they don’t think it’s a thing. How do I explain to her it is racist when someone says “I’m only […]
An Ode to Self Care
Shaun Jackson Staff Columnist Recommended Listening While Reading: thank u, next – Ariana Grande How do you become hard to get? Do you just have to be an amazing, cool person and choosy about who you date? I don’t think having standards — to a degree — has ever hurt anyone, but there is […]
An Ode To Self Care
Shaun Jackson Staff Columnist Recommended Listening While Reading: Apple Juice – Jessie Reyez I am not an atheist per se, but as a member of the LGBT community it feels hard to explore any sort of relationship with a higher power due to how most marginalized groups are treated in a religious context. What the hell […]
My open letter to masked villain Michael Myers
Brianna Scott Contributing Writer While most of you ladies are gearing up to dress in sexy costumes for Halloween, I will be in the movie theater cozied up with a bucket of popcorn watching the love of my life on the big screen slice-and-dice some stupid teenagers. I may have a slight obsession with a […]
An Ode to Self-Care
Shaun Jackson Staff Columnist Recommended Listening While Reading: “Runnin’ Thru Lovers” – Sabrina Claudio How do you deal with boys who just want to hook up when you have no interest in meaningless intimacy? Well, naturally, the first thing I would recommend is not to deal with them at all, especially if you are clued-in […]
An ode to self-care
*Recommended listening while reading: “Get Well Soon” – Ariana Grande I’ve broken up with 90% of the people I have been with. What’s most likely the issue? Should I feel like there’s a central problem? Darling, not only are you painfully aware of the fact that there is a central problem, I also think a […]
An Ode to Self Care
I’ve had sex with people I don’t know that well but for some reason I feel like there’s always some type of emotional connection. Is it just me as a person or does sex always translate into some type of emotional connection? Now, I don’t want to say it’s just you because many others feel […]
Cop Corner: legal love vs. illegal love.
Find a new love for the New Year? We certainly hope so. However, sometimes relationships don’t pan out. Sometimes when relationships end really, really badly, they end with us, the cops. Signs of abusive relationships cover the spectrum of male-female and LGBTQ+ relationships. It’s helpful to know what behaviors cross the line of being appropriate, […]
Dance seniors to premiere ‘Ergo Sum’ this week
The end of the semester is approaching and VCU’s department of Dance and Choreography seniors are preparing for their senior project dance concert, titled “Ergo Sum.”
Compass rally pushes students to honor consent
In the U.S. someone is sexually assaulted every two minutes, resulting in about 237,868 victims per year, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. Of those victims, 80 percent are under the age of 30.