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A Double Dare for Facebook
Once upon a time a 20-year-old girl named Bridget came home from college, opened her laptop, and discovered a weight-loss ad on her Facebook homepage. Aside from being a 20-year-old girl, Bridget is...
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Recommended Reading: New Feminists: Young, Multicultural, Strategic, and...
Reshma Saujani Today’s young feminists do not flog themselves for not “having it all.” They know that is a fraudulent expectation. Very few women manage to have it all; certainly not all at once....
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Feminists Engage Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Tomorrow, Friday, March 15th from 11AM-3PM EST is #TooFew: A Feminist Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon. #TooFew is a response to a lack of representation of women, people of color, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized...
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A Word on Pimp Culture
James Franco in “Spring Breakers”Image credit: collider.com Pimp culture is the way society itself is conditioned to glorify and glamorize pimps, as seen in the media and the way people discuss them in...
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The F Word
On my last birthday, one of the presents I received from my parents was a t-shirt that said “this is what a feminist looks like” on the front. It was a sweet and thoughtful gift—when I first became...
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Currently Crushing On: Fembot Collective
The Fembot Collective is a collaboration among college faculty, students, artists, media producers and librarians who do research on the convergence of gender, new media, and technology. The collective...
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Currently Crushing On: Marimacho
Marimacho’s Souvenir Collection – Super Boi Swim Brief I recently saw this interview in xQsí by Jacky Guerrero where she interviews the fashion fabulous Crystal González-Alé and Ivette González-Alé,...
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The Patriarchy Goes to Parties Too
I would say that in general, at any sort of party—but especially the ubiquitous college dance-or-talk-really-loudly-in-the-other-room party—the unspoken collective mission is to “maintain good vibes.”...
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Girls on Film: A Response to YouTube Sexism
As irksome as it is, the general consensus still seems to deem “feminine” traits and interests as “lesser.” There’s this false generalization that women aren’t as capable as men in terms of...
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Fem MCs
Music, like so many other fields, is strongly male dominated. This sad occurrence is especially prevalent in certain genres, and the result is that female artists are often overlooked and...
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Recommended Reading: The Young-girl and the Selfie
The accusation of narcissism leveled at self-photographers and, if opaquely, at teenage girls in particular is evidence of an extraordinary lack of insight into the workings of femininity under late...
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Reflections on Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, published in 2008, is a novel set in 17th century colonial America and is ostensibly about a time in which slavery was not inextricably linked to race. The story is told...
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Why I Am Not a SWUG
At Brown, the sexual culture of soon-t0-be graduates is commonly described as a “scramble.” It’s a get-it-while-it’s-hot type of mentality where, we are told, everyone tries to have catch-up hook-ups...
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Recommended Reading: Be a Man, Stand Up For Women
I believe that there is a stigma attached to men advocating for women’s rights, at least on Harvard’s campus, and this needs to change. I have heard many people assume that a guy is gay because he is...
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A Response to the Vagina Monologues
I went to see Brown’s production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues last Friday night. First staged in 1996, the episodic play originates from over 200 interviews Ensler conducted with women from...
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Recommended Reading: Why Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” Video Makes Me...
Because the message that we constantly receive is that girls are not valuable without beauty. Brave, strong, smart? Not enough. You have to be beautiful. And “beautiful” means something very specific,...
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It’s Monsoon Season!
Why is Jinkx Monsoon the fairest drag queen of them all? Oh please allow me to ooze. When I first encountered Jinkx Monsoon, she was sauntering across a gif set on my Tumblr dashboard. The scene from...
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Recommended Reading: Brittney Griner and the Quiet Queering of Professional...
I have to admit that, prior to this week, I had never given significant thought to the WNBA; the players, games or the association as a whole. Watching NBA games with my family was a large part of my...
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On Hijabs, Feminism and Women in Islam
First and foremost — what is a Hijab? In a literal sense, it means “veil” or “barrier” but it is most commonly known as a headscarf. It is used by Muslim women and is only necessary in the presence of...
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That Manic Pixie Summer Dream Girl
Growing up, I spent my summers alternating between the books my grandmother gave me and trashy teen romance novels. I’d strut around with my hardcover copies of Little Women and Anne of Green Gables...
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