Muntaqa "Moon" Zaman
Writer, poet, and aspiring journalist. Recent graduate from UVA with a B.A. in Anthropology. Former Iris magazine staff writer. Current M.S. Student at Harvard Medical School in Media, Medicine, and Health. Avid reader. "I live so I love." - RM. he / they
Group Project: Analyzing Iran's Triangular Clinic for HIV Intervention
My specific area of expertise in this group project was analyzing the theory of social suffering, and analyzing the case's communication strategies.
Sample Grant Proposal for Project: Reclaim the Lens
Why are states still denying Medicaid coverage for transgender people?
Transgender Awareness Week: The Trans Muslim Dilemma
Colored and Queer: A Short Anthology
The Memory Cone
I want to preface this by saying I do love my mother. That truth gnaws at me. I don’t wish to betray anyone. Not her, not the family unit, and hopefully not God. (The well-known adage in a Muslim household: Who next? Your mother? And then? Your mother. And then? Your mother? And then? Your father.) I’d love her to death even if I wasn’t ordered to do so. A parallel: the magic, or perhaps the curse, of childbirth—that even though the process of having her was so painful, when I see her face I am
Making Space
In October, the Women’s Center’s Body Positivity team hosted an event in coordination with the Multicultural Student Center (MSS) featuring LA-based activist Gloria Lucas, founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride (NPP), an in-community eating disorders and body positive organization dedicated to creating visibility and resources for Black, Indigenous, communities of color. As a student of color, I went to the event with specific lived experiences in mind: my younger sister’s struggle with an eating d
Music and Identity Politics: How BTS Breaks the Mold
Since their debut in 2013, the worldwide sensation and phenomenal K-pop boy group BTS has made a steady, but certainly not easy, climb to success. Just accounting for their accomplishments in recent years, including their foundational Love Yourself: Speak Yourself world tour in 2018 that included two sold-out shows at the iconic Wembley Stadium; consecutively topping the Billboard Hot 100 charts; and receiving an all-kill record at the 2021 American Music Awards (AMA) by winning 3 awards (includ
Empathy as Entertainment: Bo Burnham’s "Inside"
Here’s a typical scene for a college student like me: you come home, sit down, eat out of a foam bowl for dinner, scroll through TikTok to see your own life reflected back at you on a screen. It’s okay that you’re eating out of a foam bowl and nodding along to buzzwords, because everyone else is doing it too. The last three videos, ten posts, and four YouTube channels told you so. This is hyperfocus, you think. This is educating yourself. Buzzwords. The right ones. You click the little heart.
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