Wondering what the ShoutOut! bloggers covered this week in the Newsroom? Presidential Business: Trump’s Presidential Inaugural Committee has released statements saying that the upcoming weekend’s events will emphasize simplicity over luxury, as if it was a conscious choice on the part of Trump’s team to have no one throw him inaugural balls, to have the […]
Read More Newsroom Round UpAs a new semester of bloggers are about to join the ShoutOut legacy, I wanted to take the time to sit down with one of ShoutOut’s faculty advisors, Dr. Kathryn Hobson, talk about feminism, her personal experiences, and what advice she has for future bloggers! So, dive on in and get to know one of […]
Read More Spotlight: An Interview with ShoutOut’s Dr. HobsonYesterday, December 4th, the Army Corps of Engineers denied the easement for the Dakota Access oil pipeline through Lake Oahe, a reservoir of the Missouri River. This is a huge win for the Sioux of Standing Rock, North Dakota! Water protectors stood their ground and have maintained clean drinking water for their tribe and all those […]
Read More Mni Wiconi: Water is Life.(image use flickr-Gage Skidmore) Depending on who you are, Tomi Lahren is either the Hobbit that saves Middle Earth or one of Sauron’s orcs. A 24-year old conservative media figure on The Blaze, Lahren’s rants on Colin Kaepernick’s un-Americanism, the babyish nature of Trump protestors, and how Black Lives Matter is similar to the […]
Read More Tomi Lahren’s Interview with Trevor Noah is the New NormArtificial intelligence (AI) is the development of computer systems that can perform in ways that would typically require a level of human intelligence as a means of aiding their human counterparts (think Siri, Alexa, GPS systems, etc.). However, the gendered nature of AI programming is much less complex— it has its roots in the same […]
Read More Nurture vs. Nature— The Sexist Nature of Artificial IntelligenceToday’s comedian quote for the post comes from none other than Paul Mooney who stated that white people can laugh at jokes about any race, religion, ethnicity, nationality etc. but “the minute it’s about you being ‘white’, you have no sense of humor about yourself. Fuck you, you can be talked about too, this is […]
Read More The Ballad of the Oversensitive White MalesIn light of this November’s (traumatizing) elections a new campaign, if you will, has surfaced. First starting in Britain as a result of the Brexit, it has now been adopted by many Americans; from college and university campuses (like yours truly–JMU) to the general public. #Safetypin is an effort to show support, and allyship to […]
Read More Safety for who?: A Critique of the #safetypin CampaignAs we pack our bags and make the drive home for a much-needed break from the stresses of academia, many of you might be thinking what I’m thinking: “Sh*t, how am I going to sit across the table from racist Uncle Dave for an entire two hours on Thursday?” Well, earlier this week, one of […]
Read More Looking Forward to Trumpsgiving90s hip hop and feminism have quite the sordid history, with Kanye West himself acknowledging that “I definitely think generally rap is pretty misogynistic.” Nonetheless, there has indeed been moments of intersection between feminism and hip-hop in the past whereby brutal honesty is mixed in with the need to genuinely lift each other up, particularly […]
Read More Exploring feminism in 90s Hip HopIt’s a phrase that is repeatedly asked millions of times a day. The epitome of every morning routine; the reason we sometimes change our outfit three times before walking out the door; the reason some spend hours at the gym; the reason my friend asked me if she looked okay before her company came over; […]
Read More Reclaiming “fat”: Because being fat isn’t a bad thing!
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