Jillian Aurora

There was a time when my voice was loud. In my younger years, my confidence filled rooms. I carried my opinions like torches that were bright, sharp, imposing. I confidently asserted my limited knowledge, often reinforcing ideas that make me cringe today. But life has a way of tempering us. Not diminishing, but refining. Over time, my fire settled into something steadier and more grounded. Quiet, but far more powerful. These days, I don’t need to announce my direction. I simply move and let...

When College Stops Feeling Like an Option In the United States, higher education is supposed to ignite our passion for deeper learning, potential, and possibility. For many people, it feels more like a locked gate with a price tag hanging off the handle. Families watch tuition climb into numbers that would once have bought two houses. Students do the math and realize they are being asked to mortgage their entire future before it has even begun. Quietly, a lot of people simply step back and...

When the recent Epstein emails surfaced, I expected an appropriate response to the gross exploitation of minors by powerful men. But what I've seen in public reaction wasn’t shock or a demand for justice. It was minimization. "He wasn't a pedofile... he was just into the barely legal types... he liked 15-year-old girls." "He wasn't into 8-year-olds... he liked the very young teen types..." "There's a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old." The Megyn Kelly's commentary reframed...