Hello, loyal readers! After a semester off from a full immersion in feminist rhetoric, I’ve come to learn a few things. While in the midst of a supportive, academic environment, it was easy for me to voice my feminist politics. My first semester writing for ShoutOut! was marked by a period of intense personal growth, […]
Read More Feminist Girl Meets WorldFire is contradicting in almost every sense. While it brings warmth and comfort, it can also be destructive and deadly. Historically, fire was a sign for life and sustenance. Being so difficult to capture in its early discovery, fire was often sacred and used in ceremonies to appease Gods of all religions. Today fire is […]
Read More The Millennium Trilogy: Firing Up the UpheavalI’ve never been one for activist groups. I remember sophomore year in high school a teacher horrified and enraged all of my friends and I at the atrocities being committed in Darfur. Under the idea we could actually end it, (yes we did actually believe we could,) we began holding awareness meetings, which turned into […]
Read More Hope Springs – Men’s Feminism Activist GroupsWhen trying to decide what to write about for this Friday’s post, I went searching through the depths of the internet. What I found was an unnerving reaction to a recent assault report at the University of Missouri. The report reads as follows: A woman said she was walking to Ellis Library when a man […]
Read More Assault, Consent, and the InternetA friend of mine was recently telling me about a situation in her practicum class where middle school girls were being verbally sexually harassed by a classmate and, much to the surprise of the faculty, were not speaking out about it. And even when they did, she told me, they did so in a way […]
Read More Mythbusting Mondays: Everyone Knows Their Right to Stop HarassmentCarly Quaglio (displayed as ‘carly’) and Katie Sensabaugh (displayed as ‘me’), bitch it out about guys who find someway or another to add an extra touch of humiliation on an already embarrassing moment. Why do they always have to do that?! me: hey carly! carly: Hey katie, what’s up? me: just studying in the library..blah […]
Read More Bitchin’ Table: Is the humiliation really necessary?!Holly Kearl,” Street Harassment: What it is, why it matters, and what YOU can do about it!” Thursday, February 24, at 6:30 pm in Miller 1101 Kearl is a national expert on street harassment and author of Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women. She is based in the Washington […]
Read More Quick Hit – Holly Kearl Speaks On Street Harassment 2/24Oppression can only survive in silence. Make your voice heard! Sister Speak is now accepting new members and/or submissions for our Spring 2010 issue. Have you ever been publicly harassed because of your race, class, gender, age, or sexual orientation? Help us raise awareness to the JMU community that these incidences are NOT isolated, they […]
Read More Sister Speak wants YOU!Hi again, welcome to another fabulous Bitchin’ Table. Each week 2 of your favorite and most beautiful ShoutOut! writers chew it out over any topic that comes to mind. This week we’re bitchin’ about Rape Jokes, they definitely don’t have us laughing. Because feminists haven’t got a sense of humor. That was sarcasm. KillerTofu: Hey […]
Read More The Bitchin’ Table: A Few Knock Knock Jokes I Don’t Want to HearSo last friday, I wrote a piece on Street Harrassment. By using our very scientific WordPress bar graphs, Venn diagrams and the Table of Elements, our team of mad scientists at ShoutOut! JMU have determined this article struck a nerve! (If you doubt their credentials, they wear goggles. So there!) Readers, we want you! We want you […]
Read More Call Out: Send Us Your Stories On Street Harassment.
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