10th September 2021

The Shapes of UT: Redefining The Curvy Standard

In the age of Kim Kardashian, curvy and plus-sized women discuss the shortcomings of the hourglass trend.

The Healthy • 29th June 2021

What Is Trauma Bonding? What Therapists Want You to Know

Trauma bonding happens when you form an emotional bond with a physical or emotional abuser. Learn the signs of these toxic relationships and how to escape them.

The Healthy • 15th June 2021

Are You an Avoider? Recognizing—and Overcoming—Avoidance Behavior

How to know when simple habits are an unhealthy coping mechanism

Tribeza • 31st October 2020

People of the Year 2020: Rubén Cantú

At a young age, Rubén Cantú watched his father come home late from mopping floors during graveyard shifts at the University of Texas. Nearly 30 years later, Cantú is leading several initiatives to ensure students of color have access to opportunities.

Austin Woman Magazine • 27th March 2020

Coco Bates is Redefining the Natural-hair Community

Through her blog and annual festival, Coco Bates is opening up the natural-hair community to people of all hair textures and backgrounds.

10th December 2019

Makeup Artist Sarah Ogunmuyiwa Discusses the Ugliness of Beauty

Sarah Ogunmuyiwa recognizes the brutality of beauty standards, and now she is working to shatter them.

Austin Woman Magazine • 2nd December 2019

Sanctuary Project is Creating Jobs for Sex-trafficking Survivors

As a trafficking survivor herself, Holly Hayes is creating the opportunities she didn’t have.

7th November 2019

Committing to Environmental Change, One Clothing Piece at a Time

Students are ditching fast fashion brands to support the fashion sustainability movement, despite difficulties making the transition.

Austin Woman Magazine • 25th October 2019

In 2019 Books Still Lack Diverse Characters

Strolling through book stores, covers may all start to look the same. Something is missing from these endless shelves: color. A lack of representation in literature leaves readers behind who long for stories similar to their own.

Medium • 6th May 2019

Drag culture is serving up more than looks in the food scene

Death drops, lip-syncs with choreography that would make even Britney Spears jealous, and food — although the latter may seem to be out of place, some male chefs and waiters are ditching traditional uniforms for dresses, makeup and wigs to provide customers with unique experiences.

Medium • 10th April 2019

Curly hair festival embraces blackness in Austin

The spicy smell of Jamaican curry was carried by the light breeze over a field of coils and curls on March 15. At the heart of Huston-Tillotson, a historically black college, the 2nd Annual Blossom & Sol Culture and Natural Hair Festival allowed a sense of acceptance and togetherness to bloom between a group of people often regarded as nonexistent in Austin.

27th November 2018

Q&A: Linda Villarosa on her inside look at maternal mortality

When Linda Villarosa, contributing New York Times Magazine writer, showed up to her soccer game, she didn’t expect to hear about the high rates of maternal mortality rate affecting black women.

15th November 2018

Health In Color Newsletter: October 2018

From black women’s silent struggle with infertility to why fish oil might be your new favorite supplement, here are some of the headlines you may have missed this past month.

Her Campus • 7th November 2018

Trend Alert: Leopard Print Edit

Love it or hate it, leopard print is making a come back. Seen on fashion runways like Gucci, this ode to Scary Spice is becoming a closet staple of many fashion lovers.

23rd October 2018

Austin has a new diverse water plan

Austin Water has developed a new plan for water conservation, and with diversity being a large component of the strategy, some African-American Resource Advisory Commission members question why this was their first-time hearing about it.

16th October 2018

Health In Color Newsletter: September 2018

From the lack of diversity at your doctor’s office to how hair products and that delicious peach cobbler are hurting African Americans, here are some headlines you may have missed between September and October.

29th September 2018

Health In Color Newsletter: Summer 2018

From health epidemics and new bills to controversial billboards, we’ve got you covered on the health news from the summer that are affecting African-Americans.

Medium • 17th December 2017

Breaking the non-inclusive media cycle

The smell of bacon filled the air as motorcycle engines revved and protesters with signs that read “go home and take Obama with you’ waved in the air.

ORANGE Magazine • 5th December 2017

Blogger Creates an All-Inclusive Hijab Line

Neuroscience Senior Khadija Saifullah says she wears her hijab proudly every day. “Hijabs are a way of life,” Saifullah says. “It's not just a piece of fabric I wear on my head but it’s also an entire lifestyle that comes with it.”

Medium • 2nd December 2017

Behind the faces of immigration

As the school bell finishes ringing, students stand in unison to recite the U.S. and Texas pledge. Tehreem Shanab, a high schooler at the time, feels strange joining in pledging allegiance to a country and state she’s only lived in for one year.