The blue lights mark a new and systematic sense of danger. People may have always been scared walking around campuses late at night, but now, bathed in blue light, they are officially scared (Roiphe 8). You’re probably thinking two things do we have these on our campus and shouldn’t we feel safer with the lights. […]

Read More The Morning After: Lets Form A New Morning

Scott Turner Schofield asks us if we want to hear a funny story. We as the audience are ready to listen to a story that is not only hilarious but eye opening. Scott discusses that he had to attend a debutante ball, but his friend requested that he would go the ball as a woman. […]

Read More Transgender Day of Remembrance

So, my fellow feminists, I’m going to take you on a different road with this post, we are going to talk about medicine. When there is dialogue about mental illness, we often discuss the behavior patterns or we get bombarded by stereotypes presented in the media. When I told my father that I had bipolar […]

Read More Talk About Your Medicines With ShoutOut! JMU

Recently in the news a story as been brought to my attention that frankly pisses me off. The Times Picayune of October 13th, 2014, tells of a New Orleans woman who was sexually assaulted. The woman woke up to a man assaulting her as she went in and out of consciousness and then after the […]

Read More Trauma, Bills, I Can’t Deal

For all of the people who think media “doesn’t affect them,” well listen up because Melissa Fabello makes it clear that you are wrong. Last night Melissa opened up a dialogue about intimate partner violence and how our media normalizes the violence. Now you’re thinking who is this Melissa and how can she just come […]

Read More Media’s At It Again: This Time Normalization

  So if you didn’t already know, I’m on the speech team for JMU and being on this team has allowed me to see some pretty amazing speeches. This Saturday, I viewed a speech that was fanstastic and had me yelling PREACH in my mind the whole time. First off I would like to say […]

Read More Giving Voice to the Vagina

Last night I went to an event titled, Too Controversial for Class:  Why Relationships Fail Dating, Marriage, and Divorce. I would first like to say that these kind of events are important, because it gives students a chance to talk about things that impact them on the daily. Also students get to gain insight from […]

Read More Too Controversial: A Participator’s Insight

When I signed up for classes for my first semester of senior year, I decided to sign up for a stage makeup class. I was excited to make myself look like a monster or an old person, but I never thought that I would face those difficulties that have been presented to me within the […]

Read More The Struggle is Real: Buying Makeup as a Biracial Woman

Disclaimer: In this post, I WILL NOT, I repeat WILL NOT, use Michael Boyles as a symbol to talk about depression and suicide prevention, I’d rather just discuss the kind of person he was at James Madison University. I remember the first time, I met Michael, it was at a tabling event for the LGBT […]

Read More Michael Boyles: A Life That Impacted Many Others

I have already posted today, but when I saw this article about Hannah Graham, I felt the need to share. Hannah Graham is the UVA student who has been missing since last Saturday. The article talks about the buzz around Hannah Graham is quickly turning from bringing her home to saying she asked for this. […]

Read More QUICK HIT: Missing Hannah Though Victim Blaming Never Left Us