Vaidehi Joshi

At one point or another, we've all read Sandra Cisneros' novella The House on Mango Street. The book is narrated by a Latina teenager, Esperanza Cordero, and tells the story of one year of her life on Mango Street, in a Chicago barrio. Sometimes…

Emma Sulkowicz is not one to keep quiet. In fact, the Columbia University senior has done quite the opposite by being at the forefront of the recent campaign against sexual assault on college campuses. And she's done it all by taking performance art…

Let's convene for a moment of American Girl nostalgia. From the dolls (albeit pricey, ouch) to the historically themed outfits and matching accessories, we all loved the collection — and probably duked it out with our friends over the best American…

Rape has gone viral in our country. No one knows the ramifications of sharing photos and videos of an assault online better than 16-year-old Jada, a young woman from Houston who was says she was drugged and raped at a party last month. Jada didn't…

Bookworms often get a bad rap. We've been stereotyped as studious, bespectacled creatures who are socially awkward, unaware of the world around us, and perpetually hunched over words on a page. Sure, we are known to have broken hearts when we end a…

When my dad first came to the United States over 30 years ago, he had two tattered hardcover suitcases in his hands and no one to pick him up at the airport. He came here on a leap of faith, leaving his home and everything he knew behind. And for…

Punched in the stomach. That’s exactly how I felt this week when I saw a horrific image of two girls hanging by their necks from the branch of a mango tree. The picture was taken in a village called Katra, located in rural Uttar Pradesh, India,…