I finally read The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Growing up, I was always a voracious reader. The Hunger Games was my favorite series. Team Peeta, anyone? So, no wonder the first book I finished within three days of picking it up during my college-years-reading-drought was a dystopian novel with a woman at the center […]
Read More Parallels Between The Handmaid’s Tale and Our SocietyMy sister is pregnant. Again. All three of my sisters are mothers to my beautiful monster angels. AKA their children. Since I was thirteen years old I watched the women I grew up with shatter their hearts and give over their bodies in the hope of a baby. It is a transcendental sight. It is […]
Read More The Problems With Giving Birth in the U.S.Can I say something? I’m going to say it! Some romance novels set girls’ and women’s expectations to an unrealistic standard of men in a comparable way to how porn sets boys’ and men’s expectations of women to an unrealistic standard. We all know that porn exists. We all know it is predominantly for the […]
Read More Men Written by WomenLanguage is gendered. Women are not seen as capable of violence. Freedom can be literal and metaphorical. These are just a few of the topics our cohort discussed in this week’s Newsroom. This week’s newsroom was full of insightful ideas and engaging topics. We began with local news. Local This very Saturday, September 26, 2026 […]
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