Wannabeaudre is back at it with another sexual assault article. Fun stuff, right? How can I not write another piece while April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). Also, as long as 1 in 5 women are getting assaulted throughout their lifetime, I am not staying silent. Anyways, I am going to be highlighting four documentaries about sexual […]
Read More For Your Viewing Pleasure: SAAM EditionBeing an advocate, or being a human, is no easy task. It can be demoralizing, anxiety-ridden, truly taxing work. As I set out on my journey/shimmy into self-care earlier this year, I was unclear as to what it looked like for me, or how incredibly vital it was to our work as feminists, and our […]
Read More Pt. 2: Seriously Radical Self-Care Practices by and for FeministsWhat is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised and misunderstood…the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect. –Audre Lorde About two or so years ago, I wrote my first spoken word. I had a rough winter break at home, things from my […]
Read More Words, Poetry, and Activists: Let’s Get InspiredA few of us headed out with a mission. A mission not really defined, but a general mission of spending the $5 dollars each of us was given by our professor on something for someone we did not know. With such little money, even if we combined all of our sums together, it still seemed […]
Read More Good Advocacy In Action: The Questions We Forget to AskSunday night, beloved celebrities took to the red carpet for the Academy Awards. Chris Rock hosted and provided laughs and jokes that criticized the Academy and the lack of people of color as nominees. He also let his daughters sell Girl Scout cookies to the audience. It was a fun night filled with excitement and […]
Read More Why Lady Gaga Won the OscarsHello ShoutOuters! It’s time for your weekly dose of Feminist news (in case you missed out on some). Here we go! #FreeKesha This hashtag blew up the Internet, and rightly so. Popstar Kesha was denied the right to record songs outside of her contract with Sony during the suit she filed against her producer Dr.Luke, […]
Read More Your Weekly DoseThis winter break I came home to a new home. One with a mom whom I love and her boyfriend whom is kind and we are er- pals. I walked into the house and straight to the kitchen because yes, that is what I do before I embrace others or plop down on the ground […]
Read More Living With a Trump Supporter (And Those With Conflicting Ideologies)This ShoutOut! is dedicated to the Board of Education in Henrico County- perpetuating the current system of inequality and hence making our generation’s students even more ignorant by the school day! Recently, a video was presented to students as part of a first-ever Black History Month program at Glen Allen High School in Henrico County, […]
Read More Henrico County’s Censorship: Kids, it’s OK to be IgnorantLadies, we know about the friend that arrives every 28 days. This little friend that seems to defy the human body by bleeding for a week and we stay alive. We hate this friend, but we have to welcome it, I mean it’s biology. This friend is our period. Recently, there seems to have been […]
Read More Empowering. The. Period.Calling all ladies/people- the ones who give a shit about politics, believe that yes, the personal IS political, the gals and pals who want to embrace their beautiful-no-matta-what bodies and would appreciate free reign to do what they want with them, too. This is a casting call for all the people who are grasping at […]
Read More Let’s Raise One Up for Lady Parts Justice