I’ve been interviewing and landing jobs for over a decade, but makeup is my downfall. With D-Queen preparation workshops taking place every Tuesday except for spring break, I thought I was ready for the headshots and interview practice, until I got off work Monday at 10 p.m. and realized I had no foundation makeup. As […]
I had never dreamed of being a queen. Growing up a grubby tomboy, the idea of being any sort of feminine royalty was revolting to me. So, when recently I told my oldest sister Chiemi that I wanted to compete in the D-Queen pageant, it didn’t offend me when she burst out laughing. I doubt […]
Students for Choice Club from Dixie State University gathered for women’s reproductive rights Friday. Jazzy’s Rock‘n Roll Grill played host for the Students for Choice Club benefit concert, which was dubbed “Riot for Choice.” The benefit was held for Planned Parenthood and all proceeds went to support the organization. Over 50 people packed into Jazzy’s to […]
The world is littered with people who would pay any price to speak to a deceased loved one. Enter Sara Flannery Murphy’s world in “The Possessions” and find the Elysian Society, where you can pay to have your departed loved one come and possess one of the workers. “The Possessions” is told through the eyes of […]
A tale as old as time is surely worth re-telling. “Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book” by Jennifer Donnelly is a charming addition to the many stories based on the fairy tale of beauty meets beast. Set within the movie-version of the world Disney established, Donnelly doesn’t re-tread old ground; instead, she gives […]
You don’t have to mortgage your future to have the wedding of your dreams. Weddings are expensive unless you’re eloping. I played with the idea of running off and marrying my sweetheart quietly, but the reality is that most of us come with families and friends attached who would feel exceptionally hurt to be left […]
The word pansexual used to make me cringe a bit. While I consider myself fairly liberal and progressive, I wasn’t raised that way. Learning how to be a more open-minded and tolerant person has been a long process I find I am still working on. I was raised in an incredibly conservative and religious home, […]
I never thought I would empathize with a murderer. Kelly Luce’s first novel, “Pull Me Under,”portrays a fictional Japanese-American woman named Rio Silvestri. But Rio has a dark past; as a 12-year-old named Chirzuru Akitani and living in Japan, she murdered her bully. The novel focuses predominantly on the adult character Rio, who returned to […]
Dixie State University has a growing athletics program. This lead is stating the obvious and is too general. However, some students question DSU’s athletic spending. <you don’t have anything to back this up, so you can’t say this. The letter is one student, so you can’t say “students.” Notably for DSU is the upcoming remodel of Legend […]
Feminism means equal rights for everyone, right? One soon-to-be-released book tries to bring all the different definitions of feminism together. In the upcoming book “Here We Are: 44 Voices Write, Draw, and Speak about Feminism for the Real World,” editor Kelly Jensen brought brings together a variety of modern feminists. These women and men — since men can be feminists too […]
