Skin Lightening in Magazines: Reoccurring Accident or Endless White Washing?

Recently, accusations of white washing of women of color by magazines have flooded social media. Fashion and beauty publications like Vogue, Instyle, and Vanity Fair are some of the alleged perpetrators of white washing. The alleged cases in beauty and fashion magazine include covers and spreads of: Mindy Kaling, Gabourey Sidibe, Lupita Nyong’o and the […]

Keeping Each Other Down

Lately I’ve been thinking about the different ways oppression affects women both directly and indirectly. One of these ways is through horizontal oppression, also called horizontal hostility or aggression. This phenomenon is the result of people in targeted groups (women, non-white, non-heterosexual, people with disabilities, etc.) believing and acting on or enforcing the dominant system […]

Girl in A Country Song

Who is the girl in a country song? Maddie and Tea explain that the girl in a country song often wears painted on cut-off jeans and bikini tops that chafe, and their main role is “to climb up in your truck, keep our mouth shut and ride along.”

#50DollarsNot50Shades

With the highly anticipated release of the 50 Shade of Grey film only a week away everyone is either making plans to see it, had their tickets purchased 3 months in advance, or viciously rejecting even the idea of having to see a second of this film. It seems as if everyone holds some sort […]

“Fempowerment” Advertising: Progressive or Just Not Enough?

I’m going to be honest: I watch the Superbowl for the commercials. I have even been known to talk nonstop during the actual game but aggressively shush people when commercials are on. This year, I was pleasantly surprised to see commercials that deviated from the traditional stereotypical sexist ads—and other people were too. Entrepreneur.com named […]

Appropriation Nation: Why I’m Falling Out of Love with Taylor Swift

I’ll be the first to say it: I really like Taylor Swift’s new album, 1989. The songs are really catchy and some of her lyrics have a feminist message! What’s not to like, right? Despite the “sick beats,” I’m afraid to say that my love for Taylor is dwindling. She, like so many other white […]

4 Badass Female Hip-Hop Artists You Should Be Listening To

I love listening to hip-hop because of how trendy and fast paced the genre is. Although I think that hip-hop is the most musically progressive genre today, its definitely not the most socially progressive. Hip-hop is a boys club. It always has been, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t badass female hip-hop artists out there. […]

Misogyny Behind Bisexual Stereotypes

To start off, I just wanted to say, bisexuality is a real thing. It’s real, there are people who identify as bisexual, so I don’t know how some people could simply say “no, they don’t exist, it’s not real.” The definition of bisexuality given on Bisexual.org is someone who has the romantic and/or sexual attraction to more than […]

Get Your Feminist Fix

Have you ever went on a late night search for specific feminist content and end up 30 page deep in an archive because the previous button was so tempting? As feminists, we all go the stage of craving to know more about women’s issues varying from intersectionality and feminist viewpoints in pop culture. I am […]

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