By Jane Kramer ’29 Dorothy Day was about as eccentric as a person could get. After fighting for years and years as a suffragist, getting thrown in jail multiple times, and starving herself for the cause, when she finally received the right to vote, she never cast a ballot. Yes, when it was unpopular forContinue reading “No Longer Lonely: The Paradoxes of Dorothy Day”
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Reconciling a History of Indigenous Erasure at the University of Notre Dame
By Austin Harjo ’26 Introduction Being an Indigenous marketing and American studies student in the Notre Dame senior class, I’ve always had the mentality that being an Indigenous scholar was a contributing factor in my acceptance into the University of Notre Dame. Since the day I stepped on campus as a freshman in 2022, IContinue reading “Reconciling a History of Indigenous Erasure at the University of Notre Dame”
Reform or Conform?: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Contradictory Agency
By Marie Stier ’29 A feminist, eugenicist, egalitarian, Christian, and natural selection-advocate walk into a bar. No, there’s not a conversation that leads to the joke’s punchline. She’s the only one in the bar. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is, on the surface, a deeply contradictory person. She was an advocate for female empowerment yet also anContinue reading “Reform or Conform?: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Contradictory Agency”
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