except they are not — they are just like us: Sporting a haircut, professional & educated, wearing Nike, and struggling filling a spiritual void. People who join “cult groups” are often describe by media as crazy, duped, and brainwashed — and let’s be honest here — you probably think the…

an UNDAS special; a look on how we celebrate this day differently — Today’s either November 1st or 2nd. It doesn’t matter because nothing is extra different in San Francisco on this supposedly special day/s. I mean, San Francisco functions as if it was a regular day. Some Bart trains were delayed but not because of crowded trains commuting to their loved ones…

It’s time for harvest, ritual revelry, and transition. Celebrate the sun’s realm and moon’s kingdom in equal balance with a fall equinox ritual. (Berkeley Herbal Center) Today, we welcome our first day of autumn, we bid adieu to summer’s final golden hour and embrace the early sun sets and the…

I’m maybe the most *privileged scribe scholar. Please don’t judge me — Oh well, look! I don’t know where I put myself in to, but it’s so much fun (and challenging). I’m a scribe scholar, and into a scribal duty! Well, first of all, I still don’t speak Parseltongue like…

Day #1 Lineation, break lines, and capitalization are just some of the elements that help us enter the door of discovering a poem’s meaning. But, what if the poem that we love to read and see looks foreign from what we think it is. Will our encounter with the poem…

a national election special ; an article on ideology, popular culture, and Christian perspective — Pop cul·ture: modern popular culture transmitted via the mass media and aimed particularly at younger people. (Oxford Languages) Last month, I got to peek at what a social climber’s life is and a rich party looks like through Inventing Anna. I got to fight with Batman protecting the under attack…

Sheila Black’s poem, “Reconstructed” in Beauty as a Verb is a poem that explores Black’s own experience with disability while leaving its…

The Sleeping Heads is an artwork made by a Kenyan-born artist, Wagenchi Mutu, who specializes in collage artwork compositions, where bodies are layered in arrays of images. Claudia Rankine uses the Sleeping Heads in her penultimate piece on Citizen where the speaker addresses an unnamed “you” to which the speaker…