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Treasurer, Peer Reviewer, and Writer
Class of 2023
Marcela is a junior double majoring in Biology and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies. Currently on the pre-medical track, she is very passionate about gynecology and outreach. She is also the co-chair of University Scholars’ Outreach Committee and the co-founder of SBU Speaking STEM, a club centered around the crucial effects rhetoric has in the STEM world. Her favorite music artists are Avenged Sevenfold, Steely Dan, Young the Giant, and Queen. She also loves meeting new people, so feel free to reach out, even if it’s just to talk music!
Publications
You’re Never Truly Yours: How Love and Ownership Are Synonymous
by Marcela Muricy, May 30, 2021 “There is beauty in the idea of freedom, but it is an illusion. Every human heart is chained by love.” Cassandra Clare When we are born, we are all empty rooms — white, blank, utterly devoid of all life and personality. Our parents, then, are the only ones who…
Check Your Bias: Why Women’s Studies Should Amend Its Relationship With Biology
by Marcela Muricy, November 30, 2020 Over the years, a gap has grown. As it has expanded, the women’s studies field has largely distanced itself from making connections to the field that may cause it to flourish most: biology. Either due to lack of knowledge or necessity, many articles that could have included aspects of…
DIY Religion: Why Spirituality Should be Considered a Spectrum
by Marcela Muricy, September 21, 2020 This is a kind of mix-and-match approach to spirituality where people who are alienated by organized religions are in many ways cobbling together their own. – Tara Isabella Burton, The Argument Morality is relative. The lens through which people view the world is fabricated depending on how they’ve been…
