This morning I saw that KSL ran a story on North Carolina’s new law, which requires its residents to exclusively use the bathroom that corresponds to the assigned sex on their birth certificate. On KSL’s...

Last week, Salt Lake was marked as yet another city distinctly and publicly affected by the ongoing hurricane of media-fueled police harassment and violence. Police say Abdi Mohamed, the victim of the...

Our beliefs and values shape the way we look at the world and the way we treat it. Unfortunately, our paradigm of normal has exempted accountability for those who hold positions of power. When we give...

Last week, pop singer Kesha Rose Sebert left a Manhattan courthouse in tears over the outcome of her lawsuit against producer Dr. Luke (Lukasz Gottwald), under whom she must complete six more albums or...

I am strictly supportive of most aspects of Western society: accessible health care, voting privileges, religious and ethnic diversity and the everlasting reign of Beyoncé as our nation’s leader. I...

We have all been a part of or at least witnessed the new social media trend of hashtag activism. With recent atrocities such as school shootings, police brutality and terrorist attacks unfortunately becoming...

Macklemore Checks His Privilege Effectively With New Song by Justin Adams Macklemore recently released the third single, titled "White Privilege II," of his upcoming album. In it, he asks questions about...

I grew up in a household where my dad swore like a chronically injured sailor who couldn’t afford to retire. On the other hand, my mom was anti- “crap,” “freaking” and whatever other pseudo swear...

The climate is shifting in favor of tattoos. Once a hobby seemingly limited to sailors, jailbird uncles and other corners of society traditionally labeled “untouchable” by the ink-free classes, tattoos...