J Mogilyansky | Contributor In their essay, “Coming Home: Queer South Asians and the Politics of Family,” Alok Vaid-Menon, a transgender South Asian activist, writes about being forced to leave their heritage and family behind in order to assimilate to white LGBT activism. They found themselves buying into the white narrative that immigrants and people […]
Elsa Eckenrode | Staff Writer The ways intersex individuals have been treated by medical professionals in the past has largely been influenced by the medicalization of gender identity. It can be understood clearly through analyzing the history of intersexuality’s medicalization that it was done deliberately to preserve America’s ideals of normative gender. Intersexuality is a […]
Kiaya Sechrest | Managing Editor I saw my therapist today. I have been meeting with her for over a year now, so today she wanted to evaluate my “progress.” I am not happy all of the time because that’s not something that humans are allowed to be, but I am impressed with myself. […]
Kathryn Fleisher | Business Manager The 2018 Midterm Elections yielded a long list of “firsts” for women of color in terms of electoral representation. During this past election cycle, the first Native American women were elected to Congress, the first Muslim women were elected to Congress (including the first Somali refugee), and many districts across […]
Molly Gonzales | Layout Editor “PA Priests Graduated from PSU,” reads the bed sheet hung from the wrap-around-porch of an Atwood Street row house. Snickering Pitt students crowd around the sign to take pictures for Snapchat and Instagram. “This one might be the best we’ve seen!” a girl in a tie-dye shirt covered in Greek […]
Kathryn Fleisher | Business Manager Give give give like the stars are destined to freefall from the sky unless you hold them all in place, like the tides will refuse to advance and retreat unless you remember to push and to pull at all the right times in all the right ways; and […]
Jason Henriquez | Contributor Editor’s Note: This article was written and edited prior to the Tree of Life attack. Sadly, the recent spike in anti-semitic rhetoric and hate crimes against the Jewish people is yet another facet of socialized violence at both the American and transnational level. The most recent spate of white supremacist and […]
Regan Kelly | Contributor
Dear Readers, As a Pittsburgh-based magazine and student organization, the Fourth Wave will not post an article this Sunday. Today is a day for us and all students and faculty at the University of Pittsburgh to attend memorial vigils, give of our time and resources, and stand with the Jewish community. Our hearts are broken, […]
Bailey Layish | Contributor When I was in fifth grade, I was pulled out of class along with all the other girls my age. We sat in a big room, and the school nurse explained periods to us. The boys were outside playing kickball. After the presentation, each of us was handed a small plastic […]
