The (NOT SO) Skinny Girl

Spoiler alert, this is gonna be a really selfish sounding rant. So May is  Mental Health Awareness Month. So, to be aware- that means to understand mental health and thus to have sympathy and compassion for those who suffer. Mental health seems to be the most taboo subject out there. Unless you have a severe retardation, "normal" people don't discuss their mental health. And they are less likely to seek treatment. Most suicides are traced back to some sort of mental health issue.... Depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bi-polar, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. A disorder is a condition characterized by lack of normal functioning of physical or mental processes... so basically it's a lack of being normal? If you actually think about it- the mind is a beautiful and frightening place all at the same time- It's complex. People have gone mad trying to figure it out. And then you add feelings, this thing people call "a heart" t...

Student protesters take over UC Santa Cruz administration building w/ these demands:  1- Guarantee four-year housing for black students at the Rosa Parks building, which is marketed as a 'housing option for students interested in "historical, present-day, and future experiences of predominately Black/African American peoples,"' per the school. 2- They want that building/house to be painted red, green and black, the colors of black liberation. The house, in the middle of the Stevenson College ** -which is a predominantly white-serving college- is to become a matter of symbolism and visibility, because there are black students are on the campus who pay to go there just like anyone else and they feel they do deserve to be seen on the campus. 3- And lastly, they want the university to offer diversity competency training to incoming students. Let's start here: ** UC Santa Cruz has a distinctive residential college system in which all undergraduate students, whether ...