Snapp Chats: Ethical Hackers, A Real-Life Renaissance Man, and the Class of ’54
Two Berkeley Sophomores Take on the Fight Against Misinformation
From the Winter 2020 issue of California.
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Transitioning with Grace: Coming Out in Academia
For Grace Lavery, coming out as a trans woman was nerve-racking at first. A professor in Berkeley’s Department of English, she was afraid of how her colleagues and students would react. As she explains, a certain amount of criticism comes with the territory of being in academia, adding that, “in my profession, there’s always some degree of anxiety.”
From the Fall 2020 issue of California.
Is ‘They’ Here to Stay?
“Letter-for-letter, no part of speech gets people more worked up than pronouns do,” Geoffrey Nunberg wrote last year in an op-ed for NPR. But this “pronoun rage,” which speaks to the growing agitation around gender and identity politics, isn’t all that new, he says. And he would know.
From the Spring 2020 issue of California.
