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Step away from social media and set it down

You’re standing in line at the grocery store with your items in a small basket, and you’ve had a long day filled with classes. Out of habit, you flip out your phone from your back pocket and start...

Photo by Kasina Vaewsorn | Staff Writer | kvaewsorn.express@gmail.com

Opinion-The healing power of writing out loud

Kasina Vaewsorn May 15, 2019

by Kasina Vaewsorn | Staff Writer | [email protected] I signed up for the Writing as a Healing Art class (EngCW433) during spring 2018 to rebuild my confidence academically and emotionally, but...

Patrick Gabbett in the City College quad. Photo by Sara Nevis | Staff Photographer | snevis.express@gmail.com

Restlessness in the restroom—how gender-neutral bathrooms benefit trans students

Patrick Gabbett | Staff Writer April 30, 2019

by Patrick Gabbett | Staff Writer | [email protected] Using the restroom is a pretty simple thing, in theory. Enter restroom, answer nature’s call, wash your hands, if you’re not a disgusting...

Blush and Bronzes Balancing Toner is made completely from vegan and cruelty-free ingredients.  Phoenix Kanada | Photo Editor | pkandada.express@gmail.com

Opinion: At what point does self-care become selfish?

Nita Gardipee | News Editor December 16, 2018

Blush and Bronze's Balancing Toner is made completely from vegan and cruelty-free ingredients. Phoenix Kanada | Photo Editor | [email protected] The issues facing the health of our environment...

Contemplating my faith; being Catholic after the church abuse scandal

Contemplating my faith; being Catholic after the church abuse scandal

Carmen Perez | Staff Writer October 25, 2018
I was raised Catholic and attended a strict parochial school, St. Peter’s, in Sacramento with nuns as teachers where we wore knee-length uniforms, prayed every morning before class started, before lunch and even before heading home. We had to wear our hair in a “proper manner”—we had to put our curly hair up in a ponytail—and went to mass every Friday.
Remembering first Americans; Ditching Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples Day

Remembering first Americans; Ditching Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples Day

Nita Gardipee | News Editor October 8, 2018
Colorado Springs, ca. 1993. Mom is irate. The memory is faint, but I remember her going on about some picture my older sister brought home from her first grade class. It looked like a page ripped out of a children’s coloring book. There was a man that looked pirate-esque with a bird on his shoulder. I remember he had boots up to his knees and a funny-looking hat. He was on a large boat, and there were two more of similar appearance in the background. What was my mother was so upset for? All of her colors were perfectly inside the lines.
Opinion: Showing up for myself and staying motivated at City College

Opinion: Showing up for myself and staying motivated at City College

Vincent Ybarra | Editor-in-Chief September 10, 2018
On a cold January morning in 2009 I came to City College for the first time. There I met a co-worker who helped me sign up for classes. We decided to take a 9 a.m. nutrition class together. On that first day of class I experienced a range of emotions. I was scared, excited, nervous, proud—proud because it had been just a year and a half earlier that I had decided to not pursue a college education.
Ashton Byers is a communications major and works at the Veteran Services Center, Feb. 21. | Photo by Destinee Lang | Staff Photographer | dlang.express@gmail.com

Life after armed forces; Rediscovering my purpose as a civilian

Guest Writer May 14, 2018

Ashton Byers Staff Writer [email protected] Whenever I begin to doubt my reason for being put here on earth, I place my hand over my heart. Try it. You feel that? We’re alive for a reason,...

Photo Illustration by Josephine Newitt

Heather on the Record: In California, the real election is the primary

Heather Roegiers May 2, 2018
November 6 will see one of the most critical midterm elections in American history. You will want to have been there. But in California, there's another day that matters even more. In California, the winner of the Democratic Primary will be going on to win the election, and the day to cast that vote is coming June 5.
Photo of Ashton Byers by Megan Horn | Staff Photographer | mhorn.express@gmail.com

“No” doesn’t mean “no” when no one believes you

Ashton Byers April 6, 2018
We want to maintain the idea that rape is something that happens to those people, who go to those places. We want to imagine “they were asking for it” so we don’t have to think about it happening to us.
A group of protesters take a knee in front of a line of California Highway Patrol officers who are blocking the I St entrance to Interstate 5 in Sacramento on March  23. Protesters were marching throughout downtown in response to the fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark. Jason Pierce | News Editor | jpierce.express@gmail.com

Heather on the Record: Repeal and Replace the Police

Heather Roegiers April 5, 2018
While it may seem like ancient history that police were called the slave patrol, the name of the occupation was only changed to navigate post-Civil War politics for the sake of the South’s economy. Their essential role to society never changed. As prison inmates continued to supply a source of forced labor following the abolition of slavery, police continued to supply the inmates. They never stopped being the slave patrol.
Photo of Ashton Byers by Megan Horn | Staff Photographer | mhorn.express@gmail.com

Love yourself first: A healthy kind of selfish

Heather Roegiers March 21, 2018

Ashton Byers Staff Writer [email protected] I’m lying in the bathtub as I write this. Wrinkled fingertips, I'm reflecting on the quiet moment I have alone. As my son watches a movie in...

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