As I prepare to graduate in just 6 short days (*sobs), I’m looking back at all my time here while also looking forward to my next adventure. Part of what defined my experience here was my growth in feminism. Prior to college, I would not have called myself a feminist. I would have told you […]
Read More Thanks For the MemoriesI was talking to my dad on the phone yesterday, and I told him that it was looking like my family should pick up and move to New York. You see, my younger brother graduates from high school in a year, and we need to make sure he has in-state status for when he goes to […]
Read More Time to (Maybe) Move to New YorkOnce again, it’s been a little while since your favorite feminists bloggers have had the opportunity to talk about what’s going on in the world, and we certainly had a lot to discuss. We covered everything from Pepsi and Kendall Jenner to our impending doom and World War III. Oh Pepsi… Just in case you’ve been living […]
Read More ShoutOut! Newsroom Update April 10th 2017Most people know Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for her TED talk We Should All Be Feminists, or excerpts from this talk included in Beyonce’s “Flawless”. However, she’s also a brilliant novelist, pulling from her own experiences growing up in Nigeria and attending college in the United States. Americanah expresses these experiences by following the protagonist Ifemulu as she deals with […]
Read More A Review of Adichie’s “Americanah”If you follow ShoutOut!’s twitter, you may have noticed that this weekend some of us got the opportunity to go to the 13th annual National Young Feminist Leadership Conference and were live tweeting from some of the panels and caucuses that were taking place. It was a really great weekend filled with a lot of […]
Read More Environmental Activism: A Review of NYFLC’s PanelWARNING!!!!! This post will not contain any major details that are new to the live action Beauty and the Beast, but will include some minor details that weren’t a part of the animated movie. If you haven’t seen the movie and are okay with that, keep reading! If not, you’ve been warned and should stop […]
Read More A Tale New and ImprovedIn a class this semester, we’ve been learning about this thing called the Social Pain Overlap Theory. Basically, what it says is that social exclusion and being stigmatized register in the brain along the same neural pathways as physical pain. This fact blew my mind, but it makes sense. Recently, I got to see this […]
Read More Ignorance is…painLet’s talk about one of my favorite things, shall we? Mansplaining. I just love it when a man is kind (aka condescending) enough to dumb something down for me to understand, even if it’s something I know way more about than he ever could. The most recent mansplaining I’ve come across comes along with a […]
Read More Keep Your Lips SealedMy first thought for a Valentine’s Day post was just a pure rant. Valentine’s Day is a day that I haven’t really cared about since elementary school when there were classroom parties and we all got candy. But I feel like there’s enough of that (such as this one, or this other one) so then i decided […]
Read More Valentine’s Day: A Pros and Cons ListMy family had a get together recently in honor of my grandma’s birthday, and while it was a lot of fun, I had some family members that made problematic comments that I just did not know how to respond to. I know that this is a problem that many people face, so here’s some examples […]
Read More Responding to Everyday Racism and Sexism in Family Conversations
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