Heyoooo ShoutOuters! This week’s newsroom is special edition because both Wannabeaudre and Southernantibelle are updating YOU on what’s poppin. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month If you don’t know, now you know. This month’s theme is prevention is possible. We can stop sexual assault through awareness, activism, and changing the policies to help the victims. […]
Read More Newsroom: Let’s Get CurrentMeet self-proclaimed “Feminasty” Erin Gibson and “Homosensual” Bryan Safi, two comedians who take a “weekly look at all the issues important to ladies and gays…and treat them with much less respect than they deserve.” These are the hosts of the sarcasm-dripping, startling-laughter-in-public inducing feminist podcast Throwing Shade, a sometimes problematic, ranty, usually extremely relevant, sometimes […]
Read More Throwing Shade: A Feminasty Podcast ReviewI was first reluctant to write this for multiple reasons. But I would be doing myself and the JMU community a disservice by staying silent. This post has been a long time coming and I did not have the words till now. After the defacing of the Spirit Rock painted by Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, […]
Read More JMU IS NOT DISNEY WORLDIts that time again! We are accepting applications for the Fall 2016 bloggers. This is a wonderful opportunity to express your feminist writing on a platform, engage with our readers, engage the JMU community and be among likeminded feminist. Shout Out has catapulted our bloggers to jobs and internships. If you are interested, APPLY today! […]
Read More APPLY TO BE A SHOUTOUT BLOGGER TODAYI don’t talk about it with many people, but depression is a beast I have struggled with for much of my life. I wasn’t given the emotional vocabulary to articulate this condition until high school, but the feelings are all too familiar. Trying to explain depression to someone that doesn’t have it is extremely difficult. Trying […]
Read More An Illustration of Mental IllnessAs feminists we hear a lot about sex positivity. Sex positivity can be defined as the ideology that all sex as long as it is healthy and explicitly consensual is a positive thing. I think there is some baggage that has been strapped on to this term. The term encourages sexual activity but has been […]
Read More Sex PositivityWannabeaudre is back at it with another sexual assault article. Fun stuff, right? How can I not write another piece while April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). Also, as long as 1 in 5 women are getting assaulted throughout their lifetime, I am not staying silent. Anyways, I am going to be highlighting four documentaries about sexual […]
Read More For Your Viewing Pleasure: SAAM EditionBlack binders, hella cute skirt suits, and a whole lotta talking- these words best describe one of my favorite events on earth- Competitive Speech! Over the past two years I have had the privilege of competing with an immensely talented group of speakers, performers, and social justice advocates as we’ve traveled across the country delivering […]
Read More A.F.A. National Tournament: Prom for Speech EnthusiastsI am one of the many humans that follow loads of hipster mom’s and dad’s on Instagram, purely to catch a pic of their kids in outfits usually resembling models in an Urban Outfitter’s spread (creepy? probably). Alongside their adventurous parents they go hiking, farmer’s markets in the city, strutting around in matching Ray-Bans, both […]
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