This article was written by Merlin Macdonald, president of the Boise State Trans Alliance Club.
Idaho has always been a distant lover to me. We text each other sometimes — a late “goodnight” or the obligatory morning greeting.
I have lived here my whole life…
Editor’s Note: On Friday, March 4, the Idaho House State Affairs Committee passed House Bill 675, which would prohibit gender-affirming healthcare for trans people under 18, including hormone therapies, puberty blockers and surgical operations. Under the bill, which is an…
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a…
Editor’s note: February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. The CDC reports that one in four womenfirst experienced intimate partner violence prior to the age of 18.
Trigger / Content Warning: This article discusses domestic…
For most of my life, I thought I was doing okay managing the challenges being thrown my way — that is, until the rigid structures of our world came tumbling down with the arrival of COVID-19.
It was hard knowing that I couldn’t control the pandemic that raged outside…
By Trisha Miller | Trisha is a recent Boise State alumnus and current Student Affairs staff member.
Content Warning: This article discusses gun violence and death.
On Monday I stood in the home section of Macy’s at the Boise Towne Square mall.
I was looking…