As many of JMU’s students traveled this past week for Spring Break, I took myself out to California to visit an old friend from high school who moved out there after we graduated. While out in the 80 degree weather in San Diego, we spent time on the beach, went jet skiing on Mission Bay, […]
Read More Dear Disney, Please stop. From, Everyone.This past year, social media sites were making many progressive strides in social justice. Specifically, Facebook made a lot of people very happy by expanding their options for gender from two possible selections to more than fifty different options. For those people out there who thought fifty was a lot, I’m happy to let you know […]
Read More Facebook’s New Gender OptionsA recent hobby of mine has been to watch movie trailers for upcoming cinema. Recently, I watched a trailer and I couldn’t help but be filled with a sense of rage I haven’t experienced from a trailer in some time. A new movie opened in theaters yesterday called The Duff. By watching the trailer, I learned […]
Read More Things I learned AFTER seeing The DuffIntersectionality. This is a word that was brand new to me this past year when I began my work with the LGBTQ* community. Intersectionality is the study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination. For example, there are many similarities to the civil rights movement for African-American individuals, and the Human […]
Read More Creating Change: IntersectionalityAnother year, another Super Bowl game, another round of obnoxiously sexist advertisements. If the NFL’s most notoriously watched game has taught us anything, it is that women have no place in football. That is unless they are half naked models. So, what is this about? Why do we allow advertisements to objectify women then way […]
Read More Is Sexism the Norm in Football?
ShoutOut! James Madison University 