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Graphic by Angela Zheng  The power of a star The light The warmth The weight of worlds collapsing under their own greatness You stir that feeling in me Even space and time bend in awe It felt right from the…

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A student member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) speaks at the press conference announcing the lawsuit.
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Students and Faculty Sue UC Regents Over Free Speech Infringement During Pro-Palestine Encampment
A group of diverse people standing on a lawn holding Dom Jones for Assembly signs. Among them is Dom Jones, a Black woman with colorfully dyed locs.
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A New Face for OC: Meet Dom Jones
Two women almost kissing on a TV screen with a large superimposed question mark.
Arts & Entertainment
Can Queerbaiting Exist In A World Where Sexuality Is Fluid?
A cartoon of a scared Frankenstein's monster looming over the author, a white man, huddled under the blankets of his bed.
Arts & Entertainment
My Own Modern Prometheus
A group of protestors on Kuruvungna Steps, many of them wearing medical masks.
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Michael Drake’s Mask Ban Endangers More Than Just Protesters
A photo of several participants in the Queer Writing Space
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Writing Helped Me Find My Queerness — Here’s How It Can Help You Find Yours: UCLA’s Queer Creative Writing Space
A person with both blue and pale skin is carried away through a star-specked void on a stream of purple, pale green and teal.
Community
Voidpunk and a Meditation on Human Bodies
A person wearing a Pride flag as a cape is highlighted by an orange spotlight as a crowd of blue, shadowed people circle them at a distance.
Community
Cringe Compilation #42: The Psychology of Cringe Culture
Two furries help an excited third friend into a fursuit.
Community
For the Love of Furries
Student protestors hold up large signs which together read "Cancel RIMPAC".
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Cancel RIMPAC! Student Perspectives on Resisting the U.S. War Machine
A crowd of anti-RIMPAC protestors with banners and flags gather in front of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier.
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 The Human Cost of RIMPAC and Calls to Resistance
A syringe injecting into a thigh. The top of the thigh is bloody and scarred.
Creative Writing
transmutation of man
A graphic drawn in a colorful, sketchy style of the words "Poetry is not a luxury" shooting rainbow beams past three greyscale people.
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“Poetry Is Not a Luxury”: Building New Queer Worlds One Word at a Time
A scattered group of pro-Palestine protestors linger in front of Powell Library on a foggy day. One waves a large Palestinian flag.
Community
The Right to be Disruptive
Caryn and Aly, Sarah's aunts, dance barefoot in a garden. They are older white women wearing summery clothing. Both are smiling widely.
Creative Writing
The Hard Choice
A photo of Chino Hills Community Center.
Community
Hometown Troubles
A crowd of UCLA students and community members gather in a circle around the base of Kuruvungna Steps. Many wear keffiyehs and some raise cardboard signs with pro-Palestine slogans. Community members' faces have been blurred for privacy.
Community
Why Palestine?: Interviews with Pro-Palestine Students at UCLA
A crowd of police officers wearing face shields and wielding truncheons stand outside Dodd Hall on the night of May 1, 2024.
Community
Happy Pride! Our Commitment to Palestine
A photograph of Daniela Maldonado Salamanca, a Brown woman with wavy blonde hair, wearing a matching two-piece black-and-white striped tank top and skirt set. She smiles as she holds a cardboard sign with a painted Palestinian flag. Behind her is Dickson Court and a Bruins sign hanging on a lamppost.
Campus
Toloposungo: All Police Are a Gonorrhea
A photograph of the police lined up in front of the encampment on May 1 in Royce Quad.
Campus
OutWrite Statement: Ceasing Regular Operations in Solidarity with Palestine
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