For this week’s theme about the right to marry, I found a picture while scrolling through Pinterest that I thought connected well with our in-class discussions. The picture simply states “Marriage is a human right, not a heterosexual privilege”. This was something so simply put but something that I hadn’t really thought about until this week’s…[Read more]

This photo is from a KPBS article about UCSD professor Tom K. Wong. The photo here is a picture of him as a child growing up in Riverside, California. I feel like this picture really shows the humanity and ambiguity of undocumented folks. By looking at this picture, many would just assume that he is another Chinese-American boy. But as he…[Read more]

As we discussed illegality and civil rights in class this week, I thought that the theme was very fitting for the things that are going on right now like the caravan of Central American migrants moving towards the U.S. in search of asylum. This picture was part of an online Time magazine article by Mark Stevenson and Sonia Perez D. that outlines…[Read more]

This picture, taken by Gabriel Olsen for Getty Images, is of George Takei. Commonly known for his acting and writing, Takei is also a huge activist whose family was actually put into an internment camp. As we discussed in class this week, Japanese internment was a tragic and horrific action on behalf of the U.S. government and this photo here is…[Read more]

This photo shows the famous former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick posing for Nike’s new ad campaign. This photo reminds me of the topic of the week because we have been discussing the ways in which the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement and today’s fight for civil right intersect and how they are different. Kaepernick is famous for being the first NFL…[Read more]