The ShoutOut gang has returned from a weekend in Washington DC full of education, inspiration, knowledge and most importantly, fun! The National Young Feminist Leadership Conference 2015, hosted by the Feminist Majority Foundation was filled with endless opportunities to inform and educate attendees about multiple different avenues of feminism. I am personally a social media junkie, so […]
Read More Making Feminist Voices Heard Through MediaMarriage. As a 21-year-old college senior, that’s something that feels incredibly far away. But realistically, if I end up getting married (which is something that I want to do), it will probably be sometime in the next ten years, especially if I want to start having kids in my early thirties. Of course, many people my age […]
Read More If you get married, will you take his last name? #AskWhyWhen I first heard of there being a race for women, I had mixed signals in my head. At first, I thought “Hell yeah! Some kind of athletic activity for women that men can’t take part it!” But after looking into the name, I started to become quite bothered by it. The name of this […]
Read More The Pretty Muddy: A Woman’s RaceI’ve always been a feminist. Even before I called myself one, I always agreed with most feminist ideals. However, as is the case for many feminists, it took me a while to identify with the term because of the massive stigma around the word. As I explored in my first ShoutOut blog post (awww!), people […]
Read More Feminist Name-CallingAs many of you may have heard, one of the most popular gay hookup/chatting apps is called grindr. On grindr, you see all sorts of interesting people, many who are super ignorant. A lot of times, reading a blank profile, I’ll see it saying “Masc for masc only” or “No Fats, no Fems”, and in […]
Read More Masc 4 Masc ONLY.To start off, I just wanted to say, bisexuality is a real thing. It’s real, there are people who identify as bisexual, so I don’t know how some people could simply say “no, they don’t exist, it’s not real.” The definition of bisexuality given on Bisexual.org is someone who has the romantic and/or sexual attraction to more than […]
Read More Misogyny Behind Bisexual StereotypesTIME magazine has an online poll asking readers to vote on which word should be banned in 2015, describing the words on the list as cringe-worthy. The list includes words and phrases such as “bae,” “om nom nom nom,” “yaaaas,” “turnt,” “kale,” and “feminist”…. Wait what? Time is trying to ban the word feminist? But, why? Here’s their […]
Read More QUICK HIT: Should the word “Feminist” be banned?This weekend, Emma Watson gave a speech at the U.N. Headquarters in New York, and it has the potential to change the future of feminism. Emma Watson is known for her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, and earlier this summer she was named United Nations Women Goodwill Ambassador. If you have […]
Read More Emma Watson Launches HeForShe, a Gender Equality Movement Aimed at MenLet’s face it: the word “feminism” has quite a big stigma attached to it. Even in today’s society, some people still think that feminists are bra-burning, men-hating, humorless women who want to destroy everything regarding traditional femininity and “the patriarchy”. Clearly I’m exaggerating a bit, but you get the point. I believe that this stigma […]
Read More Stand Up (and Shout Out) for FeminismGood Evening wonderful people of the internet! Since I’m new here I thought you all should know something about me. I LOVE to dance. I love it. I’m not trained in any way, in fact, I’m more of the dancing down the isle of a store that starts playing a song I like, type of […]
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