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Annika Morris | Graphic Artist

The internet’s unfortunate idolization of Gypsy Rose Blanchard | Editorial

Editors January 22, 2024
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was met with online support after being released from prison for the murder of her abusive mother. While her crime can be absolved, can Gen Z's "unseriousness?"
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Answered prayers: the gospel of Ethel Cain | Mad Women

Hailey Pitcher December 7, 2023
“HERE LIES ETHEL CAIN” a website banner shouts on the Google search results. Another article further down states: “Since this interview was conducted, we have been informed that Ethel Cain has been reported missing.” By these broad yet telling headlines, anyone would first think Ethel Cain was a real woman who went missing and was later found dead.
Jung Kim / DFP Staff

Critical Eye: Bad memories

Sarah Goodman March 23, 2022
Columnist Sarah Goodman explores the many ways society uses the phrase "bad memory" and whether we're all using it wrong
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Social Media Society: Dear diary dumping

Gabriela Romero February 13, 2022
Having a safe space is positive, but it does not mean we should impulsively post without taking into account the plausible impacts. 
Ice. Most people are familiar with the autonomic nervous system’s ‘fight or flight’ response to threats – Veronica writes about the ‘freeze' response when the body’s heart rate, blood pressure and temperature decrease involuntary. COURTESY OF SCOTT RODGERSON VIA UNSPLASH

Fight, flight or freeze: don’t forget the ‘freeze’

Veronica Thompson November 11, 2021
Being overwhelmed by intense sensations of stress and emotions can cause people to shut down.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Tragedy at Astroworld reveals faults in concert organization

Editors November 8, 2021
Questions have been raised about why the incidents at Astroworld unfolded — and who, exactly, is to blame.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

A Room With a View: We can grow from trauma, not in spite of it

Antonia Lehnert October 14, 2021
Trauma does not have to define us if we choose to use it to our advantage.
Sophia Flissler/DFP STAFF

Gaming the System: Don’t let video games become the next military recruiting tactic

Nick Speranza April 22, 2021
The money and playerbase of esports are now being used to power the U.S. war machine.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Moving Forward: The pandemic’s effect on our personalities

Divya Sood April 20, 2021
It is important we acknowledge our internal personality changes after a major life event.
Seema Thakkar/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Boston Police’s overtime budget is out of control, in desperate need of fewer officers, reallocation

Editors April 15, 2021
We must stop spending hundreds of millions paying the criminals, abusers and killers who “protect” us.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Moving Forward: Acknowledging your humanity and feeling unpleasant emotions

Divya Sood April 12, 2021
Our feelings are neither solely good nor bad, but they are essential to our existence as human beings.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Canceled: The lack of promise in ‘Promising Young Woman’

Bini Ollivier-Yamin April 12, 2021
We must build a justice system that cares for sexual assault survivors, rather than rely on police.
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