Carly Frieders

OPINION 10/24/18 12:58am

Competition over ideological purity distracts from substantive activism

By Carly Frieders

In last week’s Thresher issue, Chloe Wilson did an excellent job exhorting Rice students to demonstrate their progressive values not just through Tweets, but through participation in activities that are more likely to bring about real social change. I do not wish to repeat her critique of Rice students’ relative political inaction. Rather, I would like to situate the problems that she describes within some disconcerting trends in the culture of social justice activism. For too many of us, our advocacy as allies of social justice has strayed from the goal of supporting marginalized groups and has become focused on distancing ourselves personally from the oppression that afflicts them. 

OPINION 2/23/17 9:25pm

SA should endorse bipartisan Bridge Act

By Carly Frieders and Magen Eissenstat

Over the past three months, our campus has engaged in a variety of critical conversations regarding how we, as students or educators, should respond to a political climate that increasingly threatens our ideals of diverse and inclusive scholarship.

OPINION 11/16/16 8:00am

Letter to the Editor: Build a culture of caring

By Carly Frieders

To the Editors, Last week, as students like myself struggled to cope with the outcome of the presidential election, one bright spot seemed to emerge in outpourings of emotional support that echoed throughout our campus.