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In 1873, the federal government of the United States passed a law known as the Comstock Act, a motion that would later go on to have startling influence on the future trajectory of literary censorship.  The Comstock Act was pushed for by a group known as the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, headed by its titular leader Anthony Comstock. Comstock was a proclaimed reformer that advocated for the restoration of classic, religiously founded, values in literature and

During the burgeoning Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, groups such as the Black Panthers and the earlier Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee made one principle a particularly notable tenet of their movement. In marginalized neighborhoods where education was little-supported, liberatory movements took it into their own hands to provide truly effective resources to students, with curriculums that emphasized critical thinking, autonomy, and in the case of the Panthers’

As seen in our previous entry, the normalized dominance of ‘standard English’ is quickly beginning to become a significant detriment to both the quality and outcome of education, whether creating a disparity in access or posing ethical problems or various other ever-growing issues. However, steps to actually achieve fair and improved education seem, at first, much less defined, so much that the matter of achievability has become a particular argument for critics of improved l

Perhaps one of the most dangerous forms in which discrimination manifests is in an unconscious manner not considered discrimination at all. In education particularly, one of the most alienating - and yet commonplace forms of inaccessibility is an ever-commonly underlooked factor that has all the same grown to become a major disparity - the effective classroom requirement of “standard English.” From an analytical standpoint, children develop linguistic abilities most rapidly d

For many, typically conservative-leaning groups, more of a bogeyman than ever before has been the apparent growth of “DEI narratives” in creative mediums such as literature. As seen by the dispute over and subsequent passing of Supreme Court case Mahmoud V. Taylor, covered in one of our last posts, such a conflict has been ongoing for a long time, whether in the name of supposed parents’ rights, as declared by groups such as Moms For Liberty, or targeting the ever-nebulous ba

In July, we covered the necessity of writing as a tool for change - an effective and powerful means of uplifting voices otherwise left to...

Earlier this summer, one of the largest disparities of storytelling in recent public attention swept across the entire nation by force....

By Brian Li '27, Winston Churchill High School As the nation continues to be embroiled in new waves of turmoil and disparity, fueled by...

By Naomi Sedwick '26, Sidwell Friends School Across the United States, conservative groups are leading a renewed charge to restrict books...

By Maira Zaidi '27, Sidwell Friends School I recently finished reading Yellowface  by R.F. Kuang, a satirical novel published in 2023...

Genevieve Alexander ‘28, Sidwell Friends School Tomihiko Morimi’s The Tatami Time Machine Blues, translated by Emily Balistrieri, is a...

On February 13, Write to Right's Montgomery Blair High School chapter (led by Lily Scheckner) hosted an event that combined creative...

Naomi Sedwick '26, Sidwell Friends I am easily influenced and inspired, so many inspirational quotes I find on the internet stand out to...

Naomi Sedwick '26, Sidwell Friends School For me, writing is more than just words on a paper. Writing is a never-ending gift which speaks...

Lilah Baez '26, Sidwell Friends School I recently read the novel Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar. The book is categorized as...

Dakota Cameron '25, John Jay High School Tara Prakash '25, Sidwell Friends School Eastern State Penitentiary located in Philadelphia,...

Alex Fagell '26, Sidwell Friends On Feb. 1, Write to Right held its first student-led writing workshop with third-grade students from...

Krish Batra '25, Sidwell Friends Being a Write to Right tutor was a marvelous experience. Despite being previously inexperienced in...

Izzy Fandl '25, Sidwell Friends On December 4th, 2022, Write to Right held an event at Sidwell Friends. The event invited students and...

By Nora Tsai '25, Sidwell Friends On Thursday, November 17th I had the opportunity to attend the Write to Right event at Sidwell Friends...