It was suggested that I interview a women studies (WMST) professor. Who better than Alison? I asked her a few questions and she was very kind enough to answer them. What do you think is the ultimate takeaway people should have about feminism in college? “That women matter. In general. I know it sounds trite […]
Read More WMST Professor Interview: My Last Hurrah for ShoutOut! JMU*Trigger Warnings: Rape and Spoilers I myself and many others are Game of Thrones (GOT) fans. I have never read the books, but I have read all the summaries of what has happened. A major digression between the book and television show of GOT is that the creators of the hit series have turned consensual […]
Read More Game of Thrones Twincest: And the Glamorizing of RapeI was reading Jezebel and found an article that discusses how a recent survey in the United Kingdom has found that more women then ever are completing doing it yourself (DIY) work in the home. This post interested me because typically men do the work around the house or a professional who is usually a […]
Read More Quick Hit: More Women Are Participating in DIY HouseworkSo I had a date recently and I noticed he was wearing Old Spice. I told him that I have been wearing the same deodorant since my freshmen year of high school, granted I also wear perfume as well. I went on to tell my date that I love the smell of Old Spice and […]
Read More I Wear Old Spice and I am a GirlI know we have talked about women who want to be like Barbie and have no brain, but real-life-Barbie, Valeria Lukyanova, has announced this week that she is against feminism and is a racist. When I was looking around on the Internet I found out about this stupidity here. In a very controversial interview with […]
Read More The Human Barbie is Against FeminismTrigger Warning: Rape The other day on Jezebel I read that a cop who raped multiple women during his employment in California was sentenced to 205 years in prison and rightly so. Sergio Alvarez charges include: aggravated assault, kidnapping, and rape. The Sacramento police believe that Alvarez has been charged with the longest sentence in […]
Read More Justice: Former Policeman Sentenced to Life in Prison for Sexual AssaultEarlier this semester in my disability studies class we talked about how people who are ignorant about disabilities are prone to staring at individuals who do not appear normal. One of the examples that we had was about an ad from Viacom that never became published as it has a spread very similar to Victoria’s […]
Read More Why is Our Culture Breast Obsessed?Disability Awareness Week at JMU has come to a close, but I wanted to write about President Jonathon Alger’s Keynote Address and how it not only applies to disability but feminism as well. The Keynote Address began with student peer advisors from the Office of Disabilities (ODS) giving a brief introduction on Disability Awareness Week […]
Read More President Alger’s Keynote Address on DisabilityTrigger Warning: Rape I think that this article I found on Jezebel about a women with MS getting sexually assaulted is quite fitting for JMU’s Disability Awareness Week and how society needs to be more accepting of not only women but people and women with disabilities. A woman named “Kris” (this is not her real […]
Read More Quick Hit: Women with Multiple Sclerosis Sexually Assaulted and Ignored by PoliceThis past Monday Season 18 of Dancing With the Stars aired and Amy Purdy, a snowboarding paralympian just won her first bronze medal in Sochi and is the first ever-disabled contestant to compete on the show. I think Purdy is a great role model for women, people with disabilities, and anyone. She contracted bacterial meningitis […]
Read More Amy Purdy Breaking Barriers for Women and People with Disabilities