We are afraid that no one will help us, that no one will ever see us as a girl worth saving. This past weekend, many of us watched the incident in McKinney, Texas. We held our breath as a police officer grabbed a black girl in a bathing suit by her hair and sat down on […]
In a culture where a woman’s worth has been constructed through the male gaze of desire, where female credibility is constantly questioned, where self-defense gets you incarcerated or worse, it’s really no surprise that women may only come to feminism on a road paved by men. The Internet erupted this week when a two-month-old Tumblr […]
Much attention is paid to the parenting choices of privileged white women, but what about the women of color and poor women in the background who are often doing a significant portion of the domestic work? It’s a photo that is shocking and almost dystopic—a group of dark-skinned women in neat rows donning hospital gowns […]
Other professors may disagree, but missing the bus, being the sole provider for younger siblings, or working two jobs should not stand in the way of burgeoning scholastic potential. As another semester comes to a close, I collapse into my office chair and let out a deep exhale. My loud sigh is fashioned from a recipe of […]
Movies and their marketing offspring are products that we consume, and sexism and racism are cheap and profitable components of those products. Last week, two Hollywood women talked about Hollywood’s endemic sexism. Melissa McCarthy called out a New York Observer film critic for calling her a “hideous,” “tractor-sized” “female hippo” two years ago while reviewing the film […]
According to the Duggars’ beliefs, the ethic of consent does not carry any serious moral weight. In fact, failure to gain consent can be seen as sparing the other person since you are not leading them into the sin of sexual desire. To bring those of you who have been cozily ensconced under a rock […]
We need to establish that the only legal answer to “under what circumstances is an abortion appropriate?” is “when the pregnant woman decides to have one.” Like many people, I belong to more than one community of people who are fighting for equality. I want all women to have full reproductive rights; as the mother […]
It is a feminist film because it was consciously constructed to expose grave injustices in Hollywood and the broader culture by making non-traditional choices that resulted in feminist acts. Mad Max is a feminist. And, apparently feminism sells. After a 136 million dollar opening weekend, the fourth installment of George Miller’s classic franchise is the […]
