In an ideal world, outside of what is visible, a disabled individual can remain as public or as private about his or her disability as they so choose. This is not always the case, especially on college...
In a world of runaway convenience, people don’t stop to investigate and challenge the ethicality of their own purchasing decisions. In recent decades, there has been a radical change in the way consumers...
The University of Texas is a diverse campus with thousands of students studying over 170 different majors spread across 13 colleges. Despite divergent interests, every UT student has one thing in common:...
The last few months have birthed a startling campaign against empathy in online spaces and media, rooted in the movement against political correctness and the so-called “coddling” of college...
Being the only Afro-Latina trans woman in a Ph.D. program at UT — that I am aware of — does not make me feel special. Instead, I am reminded that public institutions such as this one are continually...
As a cisgender person — a person whose gender identity is the same as their birth-assigned sex — I experience cisgender privilege daily. For example, I can share information about my gender...
When one thinks of LGBTQIA issues, a prominent point is the protracted battle for marriage equality in the United States. In the news these days, after the Supreme Court decision which legalized same-sex...
Sometimes, when I advocate for the marginalized communities with which I identify, I feel like the narrator of a National Geographic documentary:
“Here we have the Transgender Graduate Student,...
Editor’s note: Some parts of this interview were omitted for clarity and brevity.
Daily Texan: Where are you from?
Sebastian Colon-Otero: I grew up in Puerto Rico and moved to Austin in 2002.
DT:...
The annual Pride celebration began decades ago following the Stonewall riots, which were triggered by a police raid of the New York City gay bar Stonewall Inn. The violent raid inspired a series of demonstrations...
Soccer is growing in the United States with recent World Cup successes of both the men’s and women’s teams, but there’s a side to soccer that Americans do not emulate in sport. In Europe,...
The angry black woman is arguably one of the most recognizable American stereotypes. The thick-figured, outspoken, abusive, big-assed, weaved-out monster is a frequent persona attributed to black women.
As...
