Most women have a morning routine; it may include making coffee, checking your mail, brushing your teeth, and usually doing your makeup. We have preferences based on skin tone, styles, and age. But when did makeup become a part of our daily routine? And where did the popularity of makeup stem?
Read More Painting your faceRecently, I have found myself interested in media’s effects on young women. The issue of beauty, sex appeal, and confidence is often questioned by girls throughout their entire lives, especially their teenage years. This video clip is a perfect example of this influence of the media here in the U.S.
Read More “can we ever be TOO skinny?”This year has been a growing period for me and my feminism, while sexual violence and other key feminist ideals have always been important to me, this is the first time that my base knowledge of feminism and its history has really expanded. I read more feminist writers, follow more feminist blogs, pay more attention […]
Read More What’s Women’s History Month?“I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.” ~ Ben Rattray I’m returning for one last installment of the Millennium trilogy posts. Again without spoilers, I will explore author Stieg Larsson’s explosive series with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. In the final installment, we find Lisbeth Salander […]
Read More The Millennium Trilogy: The Man Who’s Fight Lives OnHello readers, There will be no new posts this week (March 4th-10th) due to James Madison’s Spring Break. Be sure to check in next week for new content, or use the week to catch-up or comment on previous posts. See you soon! -The Shout Out Team
Read More Spring Break Mini-HiatusIf you’re on the West Coast and it’s still March 3rd, celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade! If you’re like me and like sweet vintage photography (I’m talkin’ hi-res, restored black and whites people!), or if you like bad-ass women of American history, check out The Atlantic’s collection in commemoration of […]
Read More Quick Hit: 1913 Suffrage ParadeImagineherstory says she knows so many women who don’t seem to care, or want to talk about current legislation affecting women. For them it’s “just not cool” or “uninteresting” or have the mentality that since it’s not affecting them right now they don’t need to pay attention to it, but how much will women have to […]
Read More Sunday Links Round-UpI recently had a conversation with one of my male classmates in a feminist rhetoric course. We were discussing the broad topic of, you guessed it, “feminism”, and the subject quickly turned to the role men play in the movement. He seemed a little uneasy to pose the question, but finally inquired, “Even if I’m […]
Read More Fe(men)ism?Warning: This blog contains nudity that is quite sexy and empowering to women, nevertheless, some may find it offensive. A few weeks ago I promised that I was going to introduce my readers to some “good for the soul” feminist music, so here I am, with someone awesome for you all to meet – her […]
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