Last week, I wrote about commercial surrogacy and how women are often exploited in the industry. However, Dr. Roy’s lecture brought up another aspect of commercial surrogacy that perhaps is a more underlying problem for motherhood and birth- the idea of genetically modified children. Roy explained that another aspect of commercial surrogacy is being able […]
Read More Birth as a Business Transaction- Part 2I know that we’ve already gotten to know each other some, lovely blog readers, but let me elaborate a little on the “basics of me”. I am a twenty-one year old senior at James Madison University, and I’m in the Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication program here. That means that upon graduation, I could essentially […]
Read More Expectations Aren’t Always Met…and That Is A-Okay.It’s that time of the semester for college students: midterms. While I’ve finished all but one, the strain of the last week has been wearing me down. I’ve come to appreciate my education more and more though the years of pouring over books and writing countless papers. It’s humbling in a way, even if I […]
Read More Men, Let’s Be Accountable and AuthenticI was scrolling through my twitter feed a couple of days ago and found this story. A woman named Tippi McCullough was fired from her teaching job at Mount St. Mary Academy in Arkansas…just for marrying the woman that she loves. Didn’t the new pope say, just this year, that the Catholic religious community should […]
Read More What is this, Westboro Baptist or something?I recently found this picture about comedian Mark Anderko (@ComedianMark) whose joke goes along these lines, “So I buy this girl a drink at the bar and you know what she does? She says ‘thanks’ and hands it to her boyfriend…normally that would piss me off but it was fucking hilarious watching him drink that […]
Read More You’re Not Funny Pt. 1In my first year at James Madison, a week after National Coming Out Day, Spirit Day was ablaze on campus. This spirit was not for the purple and gold before a football game, but instead to raise awareness about LGBT youth, and especially the suicide of Tyler Clementi. Many people brandished their usual JMU t-shirts […]
Read More Start Wearing PurpleHello all, this is ElFeministo here to tell you this post comes with a trigger warning: this post will talk about rape and rape culture. Please do not open the jump if you do not wish to read. Thank you. This time of year always brings happiness and glee. I love Fall, and I especially […]
Read More American Horror Story Review: Rape Culture and Violence in Entertainment MediaWhat!? I know what you’re thinking, how could I even say something like this? As a flag waving feminist how could I even let those words out of my mouth knowing that this sentiment is the crux of the women’s liberation movement. That I’m trying to deny that this should be the case is like […]
Read More Maybe the Personal Shouldn’t Be Political….While I normally try to incorporate a good deal of feminist rhetoric into my posts, today I want to take a different approach to my discourse. It’s more of a personal “a-ha!” moment I encountered, but it seemed worthy of sharing, and perhaps someone will get a little encouragement out of it as well. I’m […]
Read More Feminist Girl Meets (Real) WorldAs Mental Health Awareness Week draws to a close, I decided to do a post on my relationship with mental illness, and the role it plays in my feminism. If you don’t know me very well, you’re probably under the assumption that I’m silly, playful, easy-going, and carefree. You probably wouldn’t think that there are […]
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