Ending Violence
Using Pence’s explanation, NCADV’s statistics, and my prior knowledge about domestic violence, I have come to realize that domestic...
Pen on Fire: Open Letter Proposal/Abstract
A piece I’m interested in writing for the Feminist Wire would be an open letter to my younger brothers. In my piece I’d like to focus on...
Third Gender
In “Night to his Day”: The Social Construction of Gender, Judith Lorber discusses how, in our Western culture, we have only two...
Elevator Speech
If women's studies centers on women's lives, it is anti-male? Women’s studies are not anti-male simply because it centers around women’s...
journal #20: reflection
Throughout this semester I have grown not only as a student, but also as an activist and feminist. At the beginning of this semester, I...
Journal #18: The Mask You Live In Reflection
On Wednesday, I attended the screening of the documentary the Mask You Live In that Gen X sponsored. It was a wonderful film that...
Journal #15: hooks
In chapter 5, hooks discussed reproductive rights and its importance in the feminist movement. Women are entitled to their reproductive...
Journal #14: #bodyposi
The Body Positive movement and #bodyposi hashtag has been developed in the last year and is most predominantly used on social media...
Journal #12: Pen on Fire
My earliest musical memory was my mother singing to me. Everyone knows that sweet, little song “You Are My Sunshine.” This was my...
Journal #8: Pen on Fire
The first time I knew I held ideals different from my family, we were sitting around the dinner table on Christmas day. After a long,...
