By Evelynn Schoenthal The other day I stumbled across a Snapchat story a guy from high school posted of himself flexing. The caption read, “Just went on a binge of rice crispy treats and cereal, but the body has taken it well.”  The post enforced the disordered eating mentality that binging and eating what you…

Source: www.TheComeback.com By Mallory McGovern Scandal and heartbreak are common features of the Hollywood gossip landscape, but nothing brings out equal collective heartbreak and outrage as the fall from grace of a previously wholesome star brings. No current story exemplifies this more than the John Mulaney, Annamarie Tendler, and Olivia Munn saga. While the Internet…

From cringe middle school accounts to rigid high school guidelines, to the era of the photo dump, why are the rules so strict? By Claire Leibowitz Instagram’s overall purpose is to share what people are doing with their lives but is any of it truly authentic and real? The social media platform took over almost…

Source: Main Street Preps By Allie Cohen As a woman, I am no stranger to making compromises. It is a concept that I am continually learning to define in my terms. This is an ongoing process, but there are a few things that I will not compromise on – one of them being my freedom…

By Kaleigh Werner, EIC Lifestyle According to the latest report on sexual assault cases by RAINN Statistics, retrieved from the National Crime Victimization Survey data from 2017, 770 cases out of 1000 go unreported. When it comes to the 230 cases that are reported, RAINN Statistics estimates that only 46 of those reports lead to…

By Allie Cohen In essence, hair discrimination is a term used to describe how grooming policies within workplaces, schools, prisons, and other public/private facilities target ethnic hairstyles. These grooming policies also target religious minorities, who incorporate hair (including facial hair) as a form of religious practice. While grooming policies impose a universal standard, it is…

By Parisa Akbarpour Last Wednesday, March 31st, was Transgender Day of Visibility. It was also election day for the Student Association (SA) at GW. I don’t usually get really into student body elections at school because it’s always seemed like a popularity contest to me. I’d always gathered that the students who vote in student…

By Christiana Corporon When I think about the experiences that have been stripped from my generation over the past year because of COVID-19, my mind immediately goes to live music. There is no feeling comparable to when the lights go down in a packed stadium and the crowd erupts into applause for the artist about…

By Allie Cohen When thinking of the word “re-appropriation” what is the first thing that comes to mind? For me, it’s almost been exclusively used in a negative context. However, definitions, which are essentially boundaries created about a concept in relation to social norms within a given point in time, are limited to the definer…

By Matthew Allen, GWU student and Advocacy Chair at The Roosevelt Network  Local Voices is a sub-section of The GW Local designed to give members of the GW community an opportunity to speak on matters that are important to them, share stories, and engage with their peers. To contribute, submit a contact form through out…