Cheerio, faithful readers! Did any of you catch the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton last week? Oh come on, you know you wanted to see Kate become a princess! I’m a pretty heartless American and even I couldn’t help but tear up when I saw her entrance into Westminter Abbey. I’ll admit, […]
Read More Girls are people (royals) too!Let’s be real, philanthropy is kind of my thing. I’ve written about my honors thesis – TOMS Shoes and Millenial Trends in Charitable Giving – in previous posts. When possible, I try to tie my interest in philanthropy to my identity as a feminist, and through this tied passion have monetarily supported womens’ organizations like Susan G. Komen, Girls on […]
Read More Three cups of (fabricated) teaRecently, a lot of my time has been consumed by interviewing college students for a leadership program. Candidates range from first-year students to juniors, males, females, African Americans, Caucasians, Latinos, Asian Americans, and students of all sexual orientations. It’s a nominally diverse group for a school whose most numerous minority population is Asian American at only […]
Read More Seeing Things from “His” Point of ViewFor my human resource development leadership lab, we wrote an 8-10 page paper on our identity and how it affects us as leaders. The paper was a lot of me, me, me, so I was glad to see my classmates yesterday and hear their perspectives. One subject that came up is body consciousness. Females and […]
Read More You’re a Woman, So You’re Eating a Salad to Lose WeightOh, but haven’t you heard? Yesterday was Thursday and tomorrow is Saturday… and after that is Sunday! Thank you, 13-year-old Rebecca Black, for keeping us in the loop… I first saw this video Tuesday night at the prompting of my roommate. At first, I laughed off how mundane the lyrics are (“Kickin’ in the front […]
Read More It’s FRIDAY!There’s nothing I like more than sassy videos about gender stereotyping! Enjoy the one below, and watch the others in the Target Women series if you’ve got time. Whodathunk that feminists are humorous? My favorite line? “the gray hoodie: the ‘I have a masters but I got married’ look”
Read More Quick Hit: the Target Women SeriesI took WMST 200, Introduction to Women’s Studies, as an elective credit last semester. I knew from my social work classes that women and girls were a population I wanted to work with professionally and figured an intro class was the way to jump into the field. And it worked — here I am, writing for […]
Read More From Women’s Studies to Humanity Studies: Men and AbortionFound this on the Interwebz. I’m glad to see this young girl indulge in and promote the idea that she can a) get married, b) have a job, or c) have both. (I’m imagining the simultaneous ringing of church bells and the cha-ching of a cash register. Melodious stuff, lemme tell ya!) Most importantly, I’m […]
Read More quick hit: winner of most adorable feministThe title is punny, but I promise, it’s got a purpose. 🙂 As some of you may know, I’m a social work major and love to geek out about it. It combines an academic focus (theories, important figures and movements) with a hands-on approach to solving social problems. We look at privilege and oppression, gender […]
Read More social activism from the most “intimate” of placesEven though I’m not exactly surrounded by a feminist cult (though, with 60% women at this university, we certainly could form one…hmm…whaddya think?), I do often forget that not everyone I meet self-identifies as a feminist. These a-ha moments occur most frequently when my friends end a flippant or seemingly thoughtless comment with “…but, don’t […]
Read More Rape jokes: No place for old NOR young men (nor old or young women, really!)
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