Voices

Voices is the Op-Ed and personal essay section of The Georgetown Voice. It features the real narratives of diverse students from nearly every corner on campus, seeking to tell some of the incredibly important and yet oft-unheard stories that affect life in and out of Georgetown.

Opinion

Avoiding Armchair Activism When Fighting For Change

This past week, over a million Facebook users checked in to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to show their solidarity with Dakota Access Pipeline protesters and thwart any potential targeting... Read more

By November 11, 2016

Opinion

Beyond Sound Bites: Unsung Heroes Fails Workers

Unsung Heroes, an organization founded by Febin Bellamy (MSB ’17), has received significant news attention recently for highlighting the stories of on-campus workers and including them in the Georgetown community.... Read more

By November 7, 2016

Opinion

Is the Smoke-Free Movement on Campus Being Purposefully Intransigent?

The recent smoking roundtable represents a very sad state of affairs for the Georgetown administration regarding the issue of smoking on campus. It is clear from the meeting that the... Read more

By November 3, 2016

Opinion

Vote Your Values: Defending our Reproductive and Sexual Rights

In these scary times known as the 2016 presidential election season, we face many choices. But ultimately they boil down to one: how do we pick our president for the... Read more

By October 28, 2016

Opinion

Forging a Path: Learn to Trust Yourself

I remember how my hands were shaking. How I couldn’t seem to get rid of the adrenaline coursing through my veins, the shallow breathing, the thoughts in my head like... Read more

By October 28, 2016

Opinion

Teaching Tolerance: Colleges Need Better Diversity Education

It has become clear as the 2016 presidential campaign has progressed that there has been a  resurgence of racial tensions on college campuses and a backlash against a culture of... Read more

By October 20, 2016

Carrying On

Carrying On: A Seat for Fashion in Politics

We all have our toolkits. For a young girl, it’s some cheap dollar store glitter haphazardly strewn across her eyelids (when Mom wasn’t looking) that makes her feel fearless and... Read more

By October 14, 2016

Opinion

Not a Hair out of Place

Having attended predominantly white schools my entire life, the majority of my peers had bone-straight hair. At a time when fitting in was paramount, straightening my hair within an inch... Read more

By October 14, 2016

Opinion

Dress to the Nine to Five

When it comes to workplace sexism, popular discourse tends to focus on unequal pay, the glass ceiling, and overt gender-based disrespect. Rarely does fashion find a place in the discussion... Read more

By October 14, 2016

Opinion

Party Culture Shock: Getting Comfortable Around Alcohol

On Friday night, my roommate wakes me up as she walks into our room at 1 a.m. “Sam’s super drunk and we think he’s going to throw up,” she mumbles,... Read more

By October 1, 2016

Carrying On

Carrying On: The Courtesy of Courage

We are afraid of many things. We fear the prospect of children dying in Nigeria when the impending famine hits, or becoming paralyzed because Boko Haram is blocking efforts to... Read more

By September 30, 2016

Opinion

Illusions of Inclusivity: Looking Beyond Snapshots of Diversity

Over the summer, a picture on Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s Instagram went viral for its lack of racial diversity. The photo was of a group of interns, all... Read more

By September 30, 2016

Opinion

Pretty Pepper Spray Won’t End Sexual Violence

Mine is blue. My neighbor’s is lavender, one sparkle shy of a Bedazzler. They match our outfits; they fit in perfectly. I’m talking about our cans of pepper spray. Designed... Read more

By September 28, 2016

Opinion

Making a Name for Yourself: The Quest for Individuality at College

Most people don’t choose their names, and I didn’t choose mine. My parents picked it for the melody of syllables in “Madelyn,” and I’ve lived with the misspellings and the... Read more

By September 27, 2016

Opinion

Freedom and Remembrance: The Problem with Memorializing

If you walk through Rosslyn, Virginia, out of the tiny downtown and over the freeway, you can see the U.S. Marine Corp memorial at the trailhead of Arlington National Cemetery.... Read more

By September 18, 2016

Opinion

The Case for Trigger Warnings

This article contains a trigger warning for trigger warnings. Okay, that’s facetious. There has been a lot of backlash against trigger warnings lately, especially at universities. Recently, the University of... Read more

By September 16, 2016

Opinion

Byte the Bullet: Let Students Use Their Computers

So far, my time at Georgetown has been one of adjustment. Like most freshmen, I got lost in the labyrinth as I searched for Darnall’s I-9 office for student employees.... Read more

By September 16, 2016

Opinion

Reckless Rhetoric: Why Georgetown’s Apology Isn’t “Reparations”

President DeGioia, in his remarks introducing the measures to be taken to atone for the University’s sale of 272 slaves, spoke of a need to “reconcile” Georgetown’s history of and... Read more

By September 16, 2016

Opinion

My Relationship with Thesaurus.com: The Road to Linguistic Independence

According to Cosmopolitan Magazine, an unassailable authority on all questions of love and romance, the ability to finish your partner’s sentences is the number 10  sign that you have met... Read more

By September 13, 2016

Opinion

Cultivating Camaraderie: Addressing Loneliness on the Hilltop

There’s something really impersonal about many of the “back to school” tips and articles circulating this time of year.  They focus on our school-social life balance, our involvement in clubs,... Read more

By August 30, 2016