Neither woman has used their public platform to really address the racism they face as Asian American women. Here’s why Khadijah Costley White thinks they should. Last week, the victorious bid of the first Indian-American Miss America, Nina Davuluri, and an admission about plastic surgery from TV personality Julie Chen has recently pushed forward a widespread […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. An App To Help Women Avoid Street Harassment by Judith Ohikuare of The Atlantic reports on the challenges of collecting data on where people do and don’t feel safe. 2. Confessions Of A Minority Darling […]
The last few weeks have been filled with “news” reports of celebrity indiscretions and beauty pageants, but does any of that really deserve so much of our attention? Monday morning I got up and turned to my favorite mainstream media outlet, Facebook, to see what was going on in the world. According to many posts […]
People are quick to label things as “obscene” these days—including teen girls’ online photos and pop star performances. So Soraya Chemaly wants to clarify what obscene really means when it comes to girls, women, bodies, what they do, what they’re for, and what happens to them in our country. Earlier this month, hot on the […]
American society brainwashes women everywhere into believing that making themselves a certain kind of beautiful can change their lives. Last night, Nina Davuluri, an American woman of Indian descent, became Miss America, and the country’s many racist crazies took to Twitter to embarrass themselves. The U.S. blogosphere has thankfully responded with righteous indignation, but the […]
A documentary about backup singers shows that those who are sometimes forced to the side are often the most talented. Twenty Feet from Stardom is a documentary released earlier this year about background singers in rock and pop music. These powerful artists, mostly women of color, have voices you know but names you probably don’t. […]
When will the world stop telling rape victims that they are victims of their own behavior? For the last several weeks, consent has been weighing heavily on my mind. It started with Betsy Karasik’s misguided and, frankly, misinformed Washington Post op-ed about statutory rape involving teachers and their students. To Karasik, the “utter hysteria” surrounding […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. You Can’t Have It All, But You Can Have Cake by Delia Ephron of The New York Times redefines what “having it all” means today. 2. On Becoming A Father by Alexis C. Madrigal of […]
