For most of us students, this will be our third time in online school since the beginning of the pandemic early last year. Between myself, my friends and my classmates, I’ve personally noticed a growing trend of chronic exhaustion amongst the student population. This heavy feeling of stress and tiredness is also known as a burnout. Though it is not a medical condition, numerous students will relate to this phenomenon, having experienced its symptoms in one way or another.
Female Genital Mutilation, also known as FGM, is an inhuman, gruesome, and painful practice where girls as young as five get their female genitals partially or completely removed, altered, or injured (UNFPA).
In many cultures such as in Somalia, this practice is normalized. Girls are pinned down by their “trusted” family members, their legs pulled apart, and the surgical procedure done without any anesthetics or painkillers. In an interview by VICE, a Singaporean FGM explains that the girl’s consent is often not considered in the practice, “The child is an extension of the parent. The parent owns the child and the child’s body.”
Apotheosis. Exaltation to divine rank or stature; deification.
Mexican writer and academic Carlos Monsiváis described Juan Gabriel’s concert in the Mexican Palacio de Bellas Artes...
The Union’s Community Outreach sent out surveys to students from 7 Top International Schools in Thailand - Ruamrudee International School (RIS), Bangkok Patana School (BPS), International Community School (ICS), NIST, St. Andrews (STA), Shrewsbury (SHB), and Triamudom - asking about students’ feelings towards school reopening in the first semester.
I love art. Every single form of it. Even when I don’t fully understand the nuance and craft of certain disciplines, even as an uncultured spectator, I just love every venue that we have found, as a species, to express the complexities, highs and lows of our human experience.
