Nichole Margarita GarciaOpinion“You Don’t Look Like a Professor”Routinely experiencing gendered-raced microaggressions in institutions of higher education is nothing new to women of color. How do we contest such incidents? My remedy is “micro-affirmations.”March 29, 2018OpinionThe Risk of Displeasure: How to Write Without PermissionAt the age of 13, the first Chicana Ph.D. I had ever met handed me The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. In the inside cover, she wrote: “We offer this book to reflect on life’s journey. We hope you enjoy it. May you continue to pursue and follow all your dreams so that you go away to come back for the ones who cannot out.”March 18, 2018OpinionThe Man Who Yells Outside My WindowIt’s 4:38 a.m. One to three times a week, I am awakened by a man yelling outside my window. While my first reaction is to yell back, “Please be quiet!” I stop myself. This man of color, living with mental illness, has two things in common with my brother.March 6, 2018Previous PagePage 4 of 4