Author / Hanna Khalil
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Productivity and Pandemic: Reflections from a Wash U Senior
Warm afternoons sitting on Mudd Field, picnicking on Art Hill or strolling down the Loop. Readings that didn’t really matter anymore, lazy mornings with my roommates, and final adventures exploring the parts of St. Louis that our too-busy schedules had not allowed for up to this point. This is how I had imagined the final…
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The Politics of Taking Up Space: An Interview with Naomi Savin of @DietCultureSucks
In this feature for the Space Issue, Editor-in-Chief Hanna Khalil explores the world of body positivity activism through an interview with Naomi Savin, founder of the eating disorder recovery and body acceptance Instagram account @DietCultureSucks. Photo by Carly Hanna. She can be reached at https://carlysurfcr.wixsite.com/mysite
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The American West and the West Bank: Intersecting Histories of Settler Colonialism
Standing on the roof of an old fortress, my eyes focused on trying to make sense of the map being held up by our guide, resisting the wind threatening to carry it down onto the landscape it represented. It looked like the world’s ugliest pointillist portrait—a map of competing brown and blue dots: the first…
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Democratic Party Growing Pains
“When @realDonaldTrump tells four American Congresswomen to go back to their countries, he reaffirms his plan to ‘Make America Great Again’ has always been about making America white again. Our diversity is our strength and our unity is our power.” So read House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s tweet, a direct response to President Trump’s racist attack…
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A Reflection On Macroeconomics, Revolutionary Idealism, And The Green New Deal
As I sat in the second row of a 100-person lecture—my attempt at forcing myself to stay focused during my requirement-fulfilling introductory macroeconomics class—one slide caught my attention. In a sea of explanations for how to calculate GDP using the expenditure and income methods, the differences between capital and consumption goods, and the equations for…
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The Promise of Better Sex Ed
“I want you to look at these vaginas so that you know that vaginas can look one hundred different normal ways, and so that you don’t believe people when they tell you that vaginal reconstruction surgery can fix you.” Twenty-five tired and now stunned faces looked back at our teacher, having difficulty processing her words…
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Profit, Self-Worth, and the Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
For many women, applying makeup is as much a part of their daily morning routine as brushing their teeth or eating breakfast. For many, it is a natural part of growing up, usually marked by an unfortunate incident of eyebrow tweezing gone wrong or a particularly dark “emo stage.” But over the years, women have…
