Role Reboot

Toy Companies That Profit From Damaging Stereotypes Shouldn’t Be Given Awards For Ethics

Toy manufacturers and games developers are profiting from the creation of discriminatory imagined worlds where the segregation, objectification, and erasure of women is being mass produced for fun. In 2014, Hasbro, one of the world’s largest and most influential toy makers, was named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, recognized for going “beyond making […]

On Being An ‘Angry Feminist’

In the face of so much injustice, who wouldn’t be angry? “You’re a feminist? You don’t seem that angry.” The first time (of many) that this question was posed to me in high school, I stared blankly at the peer who asked it. I felt incapable of coherently responding: an uncommon experience for a self-proclaimed […]