Really, all a girl has to do these days to be considered “offensive” is exist. Last week, Sophie Thomas, an eighth-grader at a the Clermont Northeastern Middle School in Batavia, Ohio, realized that her school photo had been altered to take out the word “FEMINIST” on her T-shirt. According to a local news report, the principal […]
We have a right to demand that solidarity and intersectionality not get thrown under the bus when a famous white woman speaks publicly on injustice. Scarily, I finally have something in common with a Fox News pundit. I found Patricia Arquette’s Oscars speech last night appalling. For some different reasons, though. Arquette’s choice of words […]
Feminism is about eradicating social, political, and economic discrimination facing women and advocating for equality and equity among humans. So why all the bad press? As a child, particularly one raised in a single-parent household, it was always apparent that women were equal to men. As I witnessed my mother working two jobs, preparing three-course […]
