Over spring break, while I sadly wasn’t on some amazing getaway, but in the comfortable quarters of my home in VA, I was doing the daily scroll through Facebook and came across a trending video. The video was for the “Ban Bossy” campaign started by Sheryl Sandberg—the chief operating officer of Facebook—and her Lean In […]
Read More My interpretation of #BanBossyGendercide: the systematic killing of members of a specific sex. While the United States and North America still have gender issues, this inhumane phenomenon is one aspect of gender inequality we do not face on a daily, monthly, and yearly basis. This widespread practice of killing or aborting females, strictly on the premise that the […]
Read More Gendercide: An issue all of us should be aware of.The other day while scrolling through Facebook, I saw an advertisement that caught my eye. It was for CoverGirl with the title “GirlsCan” and a video that featured Queen Latifah, Ellen DeGeneres, Sofia Vergara, Katy Perry, Janelle Monae, Pink and Becky G that’s pretty awesome in my eyes. Go ahead and watch it below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmmGClZb8Mg
Read More Quick Hit: CoverGirl’s New Ad “GirlsCan” Is A Step In The Right Direction**Trigger warning**Sexual content and language** A couple weeks back, I had written about a ridiculously ignorant and sexist email titled, “Save the Sluts,” sent by a member of the college of William & Mary’s Sigma Chi fraternity chapter. When discussing that email, I had made a call to action; to not let something as profoundly […]
Read More A fiery response to the article, “Skills Vs. Serendipity: Why Men Are Studs and Women Are Sluts”February 9, 2014 was an ordinary day for most people across the nation. I’m sure many were sticking to their normal Sunday routine, which for us college students most likely consisted of doing homework, recovering from the weekend and getting mentally prepared for the busy week ahead. However for one individual, this day, this one […]
Read More Michael Sam: The first ever openly gay, active professional football playerToday when I was scrolling through articles on the awesome feminist website/blog Jezebel, I came across a beauty. The first line of the short article stated, “Federal judge in Virginia struck down the state’s gay-marriage ban” and instantly I was drawn in. “‘Gay and lesbian individuals share the same capacity as heterosexual individuals to form, preserve […]
Read More Quick Hit: “Federal judge in Virginia struck down the state’s gay-marriage ban”A week or two ago, I had written about Beyoncé’s newest album and the feminist language it speaks. In my post, I had mentioned that Beyoncé incorporated a huge chunk of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s feminist speech at the 2013 TEDxEuston conference. When writing that post, I had watched Adichie’s entire speech and realized how Beyoncé […]
Read More “We Should All Be Feminists” A speech that can change the world***TRIGGER WARNING*** The other day one of my good friends from high school, who currently attends William & Mary, sent me a quite angry text with a link to a very interesting article titled, “William & Mary Sigma Chi Sends Out Most Bizarre And Disgusting Email About Vaginas Ever Written.” So I then continued to […]
Read More “Save the Sluts” mass email sent out by a member of William & Mary’s Sigma Chi fraternityOkay so the hit TV show Sex and the City is undeniably loved by millions of woman (and men) across the nation; I mean, I catch myself watching the re-runs whenever flipping through channels. However, the fact that the E! channel is playing a Sex and the City marathon during this year’s Superbowl, definitely sends […]
Read More Quick Hit: Because girls don’t like to watch the Superbowl, here’s a Sex and the City marathon for ya…Not only did Beyoncé Knowles-Carter create a media frenzy when she “out of the blue” dropped her latest album with no PR, advertisement or prior announcements (which no other artist had done before), but also through the specific feminist thoughts her lyrics spoke and continue to speak. Although there has been much controversy over some […]
Read More Beyonce, Queen Bey, Yonce, Feminist.
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