Darcy Bullock

Each year, GLAAD releases its "Where We Are on TV" report, which analyzes the representation of LGBTQ characters on television. This year, Fox's Glee was ranked the most inclusive show on television, though it will be ending next year after its…

What happens on the internet doesn't stay on just the internet, as senior White House official Jofi Joseph recently found out after he was fired from the White House for the content of his Twitter account. In a world where millennials are strongly…

Twitter has a male CEO and so do Apple, Facebook, Tumblr, and a multitude of other tech and social media companies. When the company filed its IPO this October, Twitter also had no women on its board. All of its investors are male. However, the…

How strongly should religiously affiliated universities adhere to the beliefs of their religion? The Catholic-affiliated Loyola Marymount University thinks very strongly, at least regarding abortion. Loyola Marymount has been in the news recently…

In the midst of a federal government shutdown, we are nonetheless forging ahead with Obamacare: the new insurance marketplace opened on the first of the month. But despite high traffic at the market website, many Americans, especially young…

The population of New York City's homeless shelters is at a record high but it's not because people can't find employment. Instead, it's because a job doesn't mean getting paid enough to be able to pay the rent. Both of NYC's mayoral hopefuls, Bill…

Recently, I stood behind the curtain at the voting booth to place my vote for New York City's Democratic mayoral candidate and was struck by one thing. Out of a multitude of candidates, there was only one woman, Christine Quinn. Sure, most of the…

As the race for New York City mayoral nominations enters its final stretch, Democratic candidate Christine Quinn doesn't just have to struggle against front-runner Bill De Blasio — she also has a fight on her hands with Democratic…

You've probably heard the statistic that women earn 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. It’s a go-to fact precisely because it neatly captures the reality of gender inequity in the workplace — but it turns out that it's just the tip of the…

The Equality Forum recently announced its LGBTQ icons for this October, which is officially LGBT History Month. Among the icons chosen is George Takei, previously best known for his role on Star Trek, and now known for his gay rights activism and…

(Warning: mild spoilers ahead. I've tried not to give anything big away, but there are general references to the show's entire first season.) Orange is the New Black, Netflix's new original series, has been garnering rave reviews from critics and…

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was elected by way of her support of progressive policies, and she has certainly stuck to those progressive principles in her time as a senator thus far. Previously a professor at Harvard Law and an assistant to…

After Wendy Davis’s recent filibuster, the proposed anti-abortion measures in Texas have been in the foreground of the news lately. The bill Davis was protesting would require abortion centers to have the same standards as hospital-style surgical…

There are thousands and thousands of untested rape kits across the country that have been untouched for years. But now, due to increased pressure from the media and the public, cities are beginning to aggressively investigate rape crimes and arrest…

Op-ed columnist Frank Bruni wrote recently in the New York Times about the puzzling stamina of sexism. Many hoped that after the feminist struggles during the 1970s, we would be further along than we are now; that a panel of witnesses on sexual…

Obama’s new nominee for ambassador to the United Nations certainly isn’t afraid to say what’s on her mind. In 2008, Samantha Power was forced to resign from her post as a senior foreign policy adviser to Obama after a newspaper quoted her calling…

There's a particularly hilarious website that's been making the Internet rounds lately. Theworstroom.com is exactly what it sounds like: a compilation of some of the most horrifying rooms the site's creator has found while searching for affordable…

This past December, Newark Mayor Cory Booker took the SNAP challenge: He subsisted on food stamps for a week in order to raise awareness about the struggles of Americans who buy food using federal assistance. The equivalent of a week’s worth of…

Almost 43% of kids today have been bullied online. Part of what’s made cyber bullying so widespread in recent years is that the instigators don’t have to say something directly to someone else. Instead, they can post it to the faceless internet…