As you all know from my blog post entitled, “Burning Money,” I am currently taking the class BiSci 3: Environmental Science. And as you also know from that post, my older sister Madison is very involved in the course. She was a TA her junior year and is now an LC her senior year. Because […]

For this week’s Personal is Political, I am going to talk about the Women’s March Madness tournament. I’m not gonna lie, I am running out of ideas to do for this. Recently, all I’ve been thinking about is the star guard for Iowa’s women’s basketball team, Caitlin Clark. As some of you may know, the […]

I am currently taking the course BISC 3, a course that many of you may be taking, will take, or have heard of. It is a very popular course here to fulfill gen ed requirements, and it can hold a massive class size. There’s like somewhere around 600 students in it this semester which is […]

On February 7, an altercation occurred in the women’s bathroom at Owasso High School in Oklahoma between several students, one of whom, was Nex Benedict. Nex was a 16 year old non-binary student who used they/them pronouns. Following the altercation, all of the students were reported by the school to have walked themselves to the […]

Like many people, I remember reading with my parents when I was little. I have distinct memories of my dad reading “Andrew Henry’s Meadow” to us before bed, or the times when he would read us scary stories on a random summer day. Even when I went to middle school, our teachers required us to […]

This week for my Personal is Political blog, I am going to talk about the amazing activist work of Zines! I am currently taking Women’s Studies 120 where we talk about a whole range of intersectional issues like reproductive health, trans rights, and sex education. The class has been awesome and I highly recommend it […]

As you all have read in my first post, my Sito, Arabic for grandma, is from Lebanon. She was born there and immigrated to the United States around her 20s when she married my Gito. Another pretty known fact these days in the current conflict between Israel and Palestine, more specifically, Israel and Hamas, the […]

Ok so a little bit of a switch up this week! I am going to be talking about a new organization I am a part of here at Penn State and how it relates to easily my most beloved passions, the most passionate passion I have. KAXOM I, along with 4 other Penn State students […]

Growing up living within 15 minutes of my Sito’s house has been a true blessing. We would always go there for dinner, to sled ride down her hill during the winter, for Easter egg hunts in her yard, for sleepovers, or just to hangout. Growing up with an immigrant grandmother also exposed me to learning […]

For my first Personal is Political Blog, I am going to tell you about my Sito and her awesome food. WHAT EVEN IS A “SITO?” The word “Sito” is the Arabic word for grandmother. The word can take various spellings, like Situ, or Sitoo. The term for grandfather is “Gito,” which can also take various […]