I’m an avid sports fan, particularly when it comes to the NFL. Like most other fans, I frequent both watching and browsing ESPN. Recently, I stumbled upon an interesting offshoot of ESPN.com—ESPN W. Yes, tucked away at the far right of the browsing bar of ESPN.com is the link to ESPN Women.
Read More A Site of Their OwnSince coming to college, I have made the decision to become a vegetarian. After doing weeks of research and talking to others who had made the same decision, I had learned enough about vegetarian nutrition to talk about it with the best of them. I quickly learned, however, that if I wanted to talk about […]
Read More Why are Vegetables So Threatening?Liz Canner presents quite an interesting perspective in her documentary, Orgasm Inc. (available on Netflix) in February 2011. She dives into the science of the female orgasm and analyzes attempts from the pharmaceutical industry to quell so called female sexual dysfunction as she is hired for a drug trial for this “medicine.” Apparently, this is […]
Read More ORGASM INC.: A review!So what I’m about to tell you all is something I’m really not proud of– it’s difficult for me to confess. I’ve managed to keep it somewhat on the down low since it reared its ugly head a few years ago, but for the purposes of this post you must know that I am a […]
Read More The Woe That Is TwilightSo I was procrastinating on the interwebz the other day and I came across something that really got to me. An article taken from The Consumerist titled “We’re Sorry You Ever Came To Our Store & Wasted Our Precious Time,” writer MB Quirk describes a situation where a woman and her friends were shopping for […]
Read More GASP! Sorry your store got shut down…NOT“Cosmetics advertising”. I’ll just group that phrase with “Sex”, “Youth” and “Exclusionary.” As a make-up junkie, I can attest to the fact that, walking down a make-up aisle at any drugstore or department store, the amount of sheer advertising that occurs is overwhelming. At every turn, on the front of every precariously balanced display of […]
Read More Probably she wasn’t born with it.I have been moving into my new apartment for three weeks. The unfinished project is not due to a lack of motivation, it’s just that I have so much stuff. I think my personal obsession with material objects began when I was six years old. My family moved from Oregon to Virginia, leaving most […]
Read More Shop Until You Drop (Your Economic and Social Status)Well I was listening to this awesome 80s hit in my car on my eight hour drive from Ohio and came across these lyrics: Have to catch an early train Gotta be to work by nine And if I had an aeroplane I still wouldn’t make it on time ‘Cause it takes me so long […]
Read More Just Another Manic Monday…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 SeriesThe 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 places
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