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Young woman smiles by wall covered in red lights.
June 2, 2020 Acceptance / Ethnicity / Family / Identity / Immigration

Spanish with an Accent

By Sarah Markstrom Perla Escamilla is a Spanish Major at Oakland University (OU). She has gone through a lot in

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Young woman wearing glasses smiles to camera, as she poses with a red sari and grey and pink head scarf.
May 26, 2020 Acceptance / Ethnicity / Family / Gender / Identity / Immigration / Race / Religion

Diversity, Identity, and Choice

By Sarah Gudenau Norunuhar “Noony” Ali is a nursing student in her sophomore year at Oakland University (OU) with an

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Dried blue flowers, partly grounded into a powder in a mortar.
February 6, 2020 Age / Ethnicity / Family / Gender / Identity / Intersectionality / Race / Religion / Sexuality

Friendly. Biracial. Introverted. Lost.

Time for another class exercise with six-word stories to reflect on diversity and identity. Understanding. Curious. Passionate. Believer. Loving. Brazilian.

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Colored post-its on top of a diagram, post-its list aspects of identity (for example, male, Lutheran, creative, social justice advocate).
February 4, 2020 Identity

Identity on a Wheel

Students in the Diversity and Media Storytelling course in the journalism program at Oakland University recently shared aspects of their

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Close-up photo of Kaitlyn Radoicic, smiling.
May 15, 2019 Acceptance / Gender / Identity / Sexuality

Asexuality Is Beautiful

Katie Valley created a poster to capture her interview with Kaitlyn Radoicic in a media design class in the Journalism

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March 19, 2019 Family / Identity / Race / Urban

Be Anything

Matthew Zeig interviewed senior recruitment advisor Brittany Thomas about diversity and her life journey. She shared her experience learning that

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Deirdre Pitts' important object, her disseration, a diploma for outstanding dissertation, and an award.
March 19, 2019 Family / Feminism / Gender / Identity / Intersectionality / Race

Women of OU

This project started as a requirement of my Critical Social Justice Perspectives course but turned into an exciting opportunity to hear my role models share

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Flowers and butterflies
February 5, 2019 Acceptance / Family / Feminism / Gender / Identity / Religion

Five Identities

Five Oakland University students describe their identities in six words. Below are their six-word stories, along with short reflections on

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