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Photo Courtesy of CNN By Jackie Bueno See link to CNN’s “Gunman confessed to Florida high school shooting, police say” for more context on the recent shooting in Parkland, Florida: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/us/florida-high-school-shooting/index.html The recent tragedy that occurred in Parkland, Florida is a devastating reality that unfortunate...
Read MorePhoto courtesy of Thought Catalog By Jackie Bueno Disclaimer: This post is not meant to diminish or discredit other norms and practices in other countries around the world. Rather, this post serves as an inclusive reminder that women in countries around the world, that disprove of the gender norms enforced in their countries, are still fighting for...
Read MoreBy Jackie Bueno With my background in restorative justice, reading “I Was Forced to Fight, Now I’m Learning to Cry” all made sense to me. Cooper’s testimony as a black man confronting the realities of masculinity made me more understanding of how I as a womxn of color and others are affected by toxic masculinity, especially in heterosexual relation...
Read MoreBy Jackie Bueno Immigration is a topic that I am very passionate about given my personal connections to it. Both of my parents were immigrants to the U.S. My Mom and her family escaped Nicaragua during the 1980’s when a violent civil war erupted led by the Sandinista National Liberal Front. Meanwhile my Dad and parts of his family came to the U.S....
Read MoreBy Jackie Bueno Preface: This article will discuss immigration, a very nuanced and complex topic that’s one of the main reasons for the recent government shutdown. Here’s a link to better understand immigration policies in the U.S. such as DACA: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/16/16879632/daca-bill-durbin-graham
Read MoreBy Jackie Bueno Reading Wilbert Cooper’s “I Was Forced to Fight, Now I'm Learning to Cry” we're all too familiar for me. As a woman of color from both a Latinx and Filipinx background, I recognized the parallels immediately in Cooper’s article between the realitiesBlack men face to establish legitimacy as men in their communities and the realities...
Read MoreNote: This is Part 1 of a 3 part series on how campus communities respond to cases of sexual harassment by faculty Julie Shackford-Bradley When a case of sexual harassment occurs on a college campus, two parties are typically identified, the perpetrator also known as the “respondent” or person who has done the harm and the survivor/victim, aka “com...
Read MoreImage Via USA Today By TJ Grayson There is a clear miscommunication between the needs of students and the environments in which they are expected to thrive and succeed. While students of color, including those at UC Berkeley, have known this for years, recent events surrounding the relationship between race, cultural appropriation and the on-campus...
Read MoreImage via Columbia Prison Divest By Annie Gorden "[W]e hope that private prison divestment campaigns, with the abolitionist vision of a larger anti-prison movement, can help us start working towards divesting from the idea that prisons equal justice, which we believe to be fundamentally racist." – Dunni Oduyemi
Read MoreThe New York Times has published a very supportive OP Ed on the use of RJ for campus sexual misconduct cases. The article summarizes: The process lets victims tell their stories in the way they choose and seek the kind of redress that’s most appropriate for them, which has not always been the case in college disciplinary procedures or in the crimin...
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