Mindy Kaling is a ridiculously successful actress, comedian, screenwriter, director, and producer. She is best known for her roles as “Kelly Kapoor” on NBC’s The Office and “Mindy Lahari” on Fox’s sitcom, The Mindy Project. This exceedingly influential woman has reached an incredible level in her career in just a few years. Her quickly rising […]
Read More Quick Hit: Why Mindy Kaling is “Kaling” You OutAs the nation’s largest retailer, second-largest corporation, and largest private employed (with 1.3 million workers), Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (Walmart) made headlines this past year at an unprecedented rate. And, all too often, those headlines revolved around Walmart’s infamously rampant questionable employment practices. According to Workplace Fairness, stories persist about Walmart’s wage law violations, inadequate health care, […]
Read More Not Cool WalmartAll hail HBO’s Game of Thrones!!!!! If you didn’t tune in on Sunday night, you should probably re-evaluate your life choices. According to Entertainment Weekly, the fourth-season premiere of the fantasy delivered the show’s biggest audience yet: 6.6 million viewers. That makes Sunday’s Thrones HBO’s most-watched program since The Sopranos’ series finale in 2007. In the season premiere, we […]
Read More ALL HAIL Game of Thrones!Lorde recently uploaded two photos to Twitter—one untouched and one retouched—to remind her fans that the images of celebrities, presented by the media, are illusory. She wants people to remember that “flaws are ok.” Not only do I respect Lorde for her music, I find it inspiring that this talented public figure to give this […]
Read More Quick Hit: Lorde Reminds Fans that Flaws are OK!!“Whether gaslighting is conscious or not, it produces the same result: It renders some women emotionally mute.” An article from The Current Conscience’s, Yashar Ali, accomplished exactly what I hope to achieve in my own writing: consciousness-raising.
Read More TURN OFF THAT GASLIGHT!I am hooked on Downton Abbey. It’s a British television series that follows noble family, and their servants, who struggle to navigate the changing norms of society during the early 1900’s. Not only is this series remarkably entertaining because of its plot twists and seemingly endless drama, it is also an unexpected feminist pleasure. Downton Abbey explores […]
Read More Women of Downton Kick AssIn the wake of spring break shenanigans across America, I want to stop and smell the roses—or, tequila, rather—and consider the weighty implications of spring break behavior. Cancun, Panama City Beach, Acapulco, Miami, Punta Cana…what do all these spring break hot spots have in common? Rampant female objectification. Sexism.
Read More Spring Break Forever?I was browsing through Buzzfeed when I stumbled upon this article that has seemed to have gone viral. It explores what happens when the women featured in advertisements are replaced with men. The YouTube video that accompanies the article is even more enlightening. The punchline at the end of the YouTube video reads: “Seeing men like this […]
Read More Quick Hit: Role Reversal? Yes, Please!I firmly believe in the truth and validity of everyone’s experience. Perception constitutes reality. That is why I have chosen to discuss this issue. I am fully aware of the #MinoritiesAtMadison movement, and I am also aware of the article that my fellow blogger, truequeerlatte, has written for ShoutOut. Let me be clear: It is […]
Read More Diversity at JMU: IT EXISTSA radio interview with Lauren Conrad, or “LC,” hosted by Sway in the Morning that aired in October 2012, has just recently resurfaced and gone viral. Sway asked LC to pull a few random questions from a “mystery sack” during the interview. She pulled a piece of paper with a question asking, “What is your favorite […]
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