Check out our bloggers’ picks of the week! hearmeroar12 says to check out this interesting ad for the United Nations Women Campaign. These Google searches really shed some light on why we STILL need feminism. The fight for equality is not over, by any means. Women from all walks of life need feminism, because there […]
Read More Links Round UpIt’s that time of the semester for college students: midterms. While I’ve finished all but one, the strain of the last week has been wearing me down. I’ve come to appreciate my education more and more though the years of pouring over books and writing countless papers. It’s humbling in a way, even if I […]
Read More Men, Let’s Be Accountable and AuthenticI was scrolling through my twitter feed a couple of days ago and found this story. A woman named Tippi McCullough was fired from her teaching job at Mount St. Mary Academy in Arkansas…just for marrying the woman that she loves. Didn’t the new pope say, just this year, that the Catholic religious community should […]
Read More What is this, Westboro Baptist or something?I recently found this picture about comedian Mark Anderko (@ComedianMark) whose joke goes along these lines, “So I buy this girl a drink at the bar and you know what she does? She says ‘thanks’ and hands it to her boyfriend…normally that would piss me off but it was fucking hilarious watching him drink that […]
Read More You’re Not Funny Pt. 1“I fail to see how anything that lasts less than five minutes can have such an indelible ethical compact”- The Purity Myth I was eager to tell my friend about my weekend adventures. I invited a man back to my apartment and had a night that I rightfully deserved. While conversing with my friend […]
Read More Do you have any dignity?This week, the Shout Out! Bloggers and I attended a fantastic lecture that presented the issue of women’s health through a different, global lens than the typical arguments heard in American media. While women’s health often revolves around choice, access to birth control, and health care- we often forget how health is involved in motherhood […]
Read More Birth as a Business TransactionWhen doing any kind of research into sexism and advertising, this is likely to be one of the first advertisements you come across: It’s practically the staple when it comes to sexist and offensive ads. It’s been widely labeled as “gang rape” and when my roommate looked over my shoulder at my computer screen, she […]
Read More You Don’t Need to Take Sex Out of AdvertisingIn my first year at James Madison, a week after National Coming Out Day, Spirit Day was ablaze on campus. This spirit was not for the purple and gold before a football game, but instead to raise awareness about LGBT youth, and especially the suicide of Tyler Clementi. Many people brandished their usual JMU t-shirts […]
Read More Start Wearing PurpleHello all, this is ElFeministo here to tell you this post comes with a trigger warning: this post will talk about rape and rape culture. Please do not open the jump if you do not wish to read. Thank you. This time of year always brings happiness and glee. I love Fall, and I especially […]
Read More American Horror Story Review: Rape Culture and Violence in Entertainment MediaWhat!? I know what you’re thinking, how could I even say something like this? As a flag waving feminist how could I even let those words out of my mouth knowing that this sentiment is the crux of the women’s liberation movement. That I’m trying to deny that this should be the case is like […]
Read More Maybe the Personal Shouldn’t Be Political….
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