Grace Sims

In high school, I had this administrator, we'll call her Ms. P, who was easily the most despised person on campus. She was notorious for following girls around campus, interrupting classes, and humiliating the young women at my school in a variety of ways, all in the name of “dress code”. Through her words, like, “I know you’re trying to impress the boys”. And “You just look trashy”!, always delivered in a demeaning, unsympathetic tone, it became clear that she was less concerned with...

In a 2018 article, Alcohol.org wrote that craft beer breweries, defined as relatively small and independent beer-makers, have seen higher production in recent years than ever before. Craft beer has become explosively popular, especially among Millenials. As a result, so has the trope of the beanie-wearing, man-bun sporting, hipster beer-snob. You’ll know you’ve encountered one if they ask something like, “Is this beer double hopped or triple hopped?” or declare, “This is great, but last...

If you read through the Texas Republican Party’s 37-page long list of “principles,” it is hard to find many of the 334 items included that don’t mention God, religion, and exclusively Christian values in some form or another. It’s no secret that the Republican Party doesn’t exactly leave religion out of their politics, and living in our red state as a non-Christian—or as one who simply does not subscribe to an outdated and oftentimes oppressive lifestyle—means enduring policies that...