Graduation is just around the corner and for a senior like me that means the end of a lot of things, including the last time I will be posting as an official member on ShoutOut!  The experiences and people I have met through this class/group has completely changed who I am and how I see […]

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As a rule I generally don’t ask our readers to sign anything, but this case is much different.  As some of you many know over 200 Nigerian girls were abducted from their school.  Their abduction is being linked to a terrorist group who are allegedly selling the girls as brides all because these girls wanted […]

Read More Quick Hit: #BringBackOurGirls

There is this great article going around the interwebs that talks about “17 Lies We Need to Stop Teaching Girls About Sex” and it hits the nail right on the head.  Women and girls are told over and over again the “proper” ways for them to express their sexuality.  From what women are supposed to […]

Read More Quick Hit: 17 Lies We Need to Stop Teaching Girls About Sex

As many of you know (hopefully—pay attention to the world!) the Supreme Court recently upheld, in a 6-2 decision, the Michigan ban on Affirmative Action in regards to colleges.  This means that race (along with sex and national origin) can no longer be considered when looking at applicants.  Theoretically this is great and hypothetically is […]

Read More We Are Not Colorblind

Imagine this… A young woman is standing by herself at a coffee shop.  She is dressed exquisitely—her outfit is on point, her makeup flawless, and her hair placed in an elaborate coif.  She had just gotten her order when a man comes up to her saying, “Hey, I just want to say that you are […]

Read More When A Compliment Is No Longer A Compliment

Huffpost Women wrote an excellent article about how there has been a great number of progress within the feminist movement of getting men on board with the message, but that we have to continue the movement with them.  Currently, we have been able to get men to understand the feminist movement by attaching acts of […]

Read More Quick Hit: Close, But No Cigar

Sometimes it is accidental, sometimes it is on purpose, but either way you look at it we are constantly overhearing other people’s conversations.  Most of the time it is just benign conversations they are going to be eating, what they drunkenly did that weekend, or complaining about their classes.  Mostly they are harmless conversations, but […]

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If you have twenty minutes ( I know you have twenty minutes, you spend more than that on Facebook) take the time to read this little excerpt, but more than that watch this video! Maysoon Zahid is a disabled Arab-American female comedian (talk about the intersections of oppression) who spends this Ted Talk talking about her life […]

Read More Quick Hit: She Shakes Her Body

Our consumer dollars are powerful, we as a society have the potential to change the standards around us, just by choosing where we decide to spend our money.  This might be the only advantage of a capitalist society, if people refuse to spend money on items then it forces those producing it to either fall […]

Read More Why I Don’t Eat At Chick-fil-A or Shop At Wal-Mart

Have you heard about what’s going on with mannequin’s these days?  Probably not, since I assume most of you have better things to do than staying up to date with what’s going on in the plastic body world, and no I’m not talking about Hollywood. Anyway, there has been this sudden increase of using mannequin […]

Read More Quick Hit: Mannequin’s Are A-Changing