Why do we travel? I have thought about this question a lot while moving through places that are not mine. Travel blogger Claire West (2024) describes tourism as an “invasion into someone else’s day-to-day life,” something most would never tolerate. This begs the question: when does curiosity turn into intrusion? When I reflect on some …
It’s no secret that being a Hispanic person in America right now feels like carrying generations of anxiety in your chest — the kind that makes it hard to breathe, hard to trust and hard to fully feel alive in a nation that could decide to erase you at any second. Across America, ICE raids …
“We’re all on social media, whether we like it or not. Every young person is exposed to it in some capacity, and ye olde politicians have caught on to that. Social media has become a forum for political engagement, and it’s important to talk about awareness and literacy going into the 2024 election.”
Editor-in-Chief Clay B. Morris reflects on the inspiration and ethos of the Spring 2023 edition of Coulture.
“My internalized belief that my own breasts are sexualized — and thus, inappropriate in the settings of my day-to day-life — is a daily burden.”
Surrounded by hundreds of people, but alone. Told you have support only to feel discarded. This is how it feels to be a STEM student at UNC-Chapel Hill. Forced to choose between compromising a dream or changing schools. New town, new room, new friends and a new schedule. It’s no secret that the transition to …
For over a decade, explorer Dan Buettner studied regions around the world with the longest-living populations and lowest rates of chronic illness. After multiple expeditions with National Geographic and a team of scientists, Buettner identified five regions where people live the longest, healthiest and happiest lives. He dubbed them the Blue Zones: Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, …
Generation Z has lived through a harrowing past 20 years: from the housing crisis to a global pandemic, we have watched a century’s worth of history unfold in our short time on Earth. We have seen technology move from its infancy into the backbone of our infrastructure at a rate that nobody else in history …
Women’s History Month may be over, but that does not mean that issues surrounding women are going away.