Hey everyone! It’s your pro-feminist friend ElFeministo, back for another year of feminist discourse! I’m back to further my feminist rhetoric and learn more about how to live a feminist life! So if you remember me from my previous posts, I was literally fresh to the philosophy of feminism and what it meant to be […]
Read More Shout-Out’s Back ALRIGHT!!If you didn’t know, the semester is wrapping up for the year. When I look back on this semester I can only see a blur. It may not have been the toughest, but it certainly hasn’t been the greatest. Of the few real memories I can conjure up, I can distinctly remember every time I […]
Read More Reflections from Wonderland: A Newfound Feminist’s JourneyI’m a gamer and damn proud. You won’t catch me toting a DS waiting to update my Animal Crossing town or feed my Nintendogs. I won’t spend hours in front of my tv wasting the brilliance that is the outdoors. And I will never pass up time with friends, to finish that last level of […]
Read More No Damsel In Distress Here: Anita Sarkeesian and Her Kickstarter StoryUnless you’ve been living in a cave or the Midwest, you’ve noticed spring (weather) is finally here! Yes, the beautiful time of year when the birds are back, flowers are blooming, and the thaw of winter is behind us. With the return of the sun comes the return of outdoor recreational reading. There’s nothing I […]
Read More Book Recommendation: The Guy’s Guide to FeminismIn the wake of the Sheryl Sandberg’s provocative book Lean In, urging women to speak up against workplace inequality, the social consciousness of women’s inequality is rising in general. Amid debate over Sandberg’s standing on the subject and other matters of social unrest, an unlikely subject caught my eye for this week’s post. Last week […]
Read More Unequal Standards: Involved FathersSitting in the beautiful spring sun, a girl from my dorm and I were enjoying the welcomed breeze of fresh mountain air. We were on the subject of our perspective futures, brought up by the fact that our first year in college was drawing to a close and we were both considering switching majors. Emily […]
Read More Social Constraints: Emily’s StoryApart from this above image I wasn’t really explicitly told what it meant to be a man in my childhood. You hear of the sex talk, but I don’t remember my dad sitting me down one day and telling me the birds and bees of manhood. So when I was sent a link to an […]
Read More Failure of Upbrining: Hegemonic/Toxic Masculinity“I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.” ~ Ben Rattray I’m returning for one last installment of the Millennium trilogy posts. Again without spoilers, I will explore author Stieg Larsson’s explosive series with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. In the final installment, we find Lisbeth Salander […]
Read More The Millennium Trilogy: The Man Who’s Fight Lives OnIf you’re on the West Coast and it’s still March 3rd, celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade! If you’re like me and like sweet vintage photography (I’m talkin’ hi-res, restored black and whites people!), or if you like bad-ass women of American history, check out The Atlantic’s collection in commemoration of […]
Read More Quick Hit: 1913 Suffrage ParadeFire is contradicting in almost every sense. While it brings warmth and comfort, it can also be destructive and deadly. Historically, fire was a sign for life and sustenance. Being so difficult to capture in its early discovery, fire was often sacred and used in ceremonies to appease Gods of all religions. Today fire is […]
Read More The Millennium Trilogy: Firing Up the Upheaval