What I hope for my daughters—for young women everywhere— is an authentic experience of sexuality, free from self-consciousness, shame, or violation. When Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus sang together at One Love Manchester, an all-star benefit for victims of the May 22 terrorist attack, they showed tenderness instead of hotness, a shift from their usual […]
Our emancipation as women is directly connected to our status as equal human beings—not objects. I’ll never forget the first time I saw Jessica Rabbit—no, I’ll never forget the first time I saw her breasts. Voluptuous and bursting out of her sparkling red dress; they were mesmerizing. I knew I had to have a pair. […]
It’s 2015, and I’d like to know why we still believe that a woman can’t be both smart and desirable. It’s late January and while navigating a sea of new course syllabi, doctoral applications, and conference research, I haven’t been the best at keeping up with recent news. What little media trickles through the stacks […]
Pop singer Katy Perry, who recently dressed as a geisha on stage, told Rolling Stone magazine that she doesn’t understand how her performance was racist. There is a difference between appropriation and appreciation, although Katy Perry might not know it. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the pop singer reflected on criticism of a […]
