We’ve all heard the phrase “I’m just a girl,” whether it be stated on social media or spoken in dialogue from your own life. Maybe you’ve even said it. “I’m just a girl!” she exclaims as she hits a curb. “I’m just a girl!” she exclaims after she burns her dinner in the oven. “I’m […]
Read More The Problem With “I’m Just a Girl”Unless you missed it, the Final Four matchup between UConn Huskies women’s basketball and South Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball was exactly what it should’ve been. Two 1 seeds, two dominant teams, no excuses. South Carolina came in and beat UConn 62–48, snapping a 54-game win streak. That should’ve been the story. But it wasn’t. What […]
Read More That Wasn’t Just Frustration.A interview with the women owned business the LO|CAL Market In Harrisonburg, we have many thrift stores and local markets for everyone to explore. A few examples are the Agora shops, Lady Jane, and the LO|CAL Market. I learned that the LO|CAL Market is run and owned by a woman who grew up pretty close […]
Read More A LO|CAL InterviewFollowing the recent cancellation of the hit reality television show, The Bachelorette, fans have expressed their opinions on the sudden cancellation and the incident leading up to the show’s premiere. Upcoming Bachelorette, Taylor Frankie Paul was no stranger to the public eye, but a recently released video has taken her out of Bachelor nation spotlight. […]
Read More The Bachelorette Fallout: Why Reality TV Stars Need to Take AccountabilityHow do you tell someone you love that you are good enough and you deserve to eat? I asked myself this question a countless number of times as I watched my childhood best friend, a Black woman who was a track athlete, run over 10 miles every single day, and only fueling herself with one […]
Read More You Are Good EnoughIf my best friend, who is the same age as me, born just two weeks apart, the same major, the same values, and even the same shade of blonde if you want to get specific, goes to school at Auburn in Alabama and needs healthcare, and I need that same healthcare here in Virginia, why […]
Read More Access Should Not Depend on Your Zip CodeUnless you’re living under a rock, you know what a GLP-1 is. I can’t be the only one that has noticed the resurgence of WICKED thin celebrities, or influencers on skinny tok. It seems like everywhere you go, there’s a reminder of what your body looks like. Do we think this is a coincidence? I […]
Read More Injected into skinny cultureIn history classes, we typically learned that women earned the right to vote in 1920, and that’s where the chapter seemed to close on the struggle for women’s suffrage. What these books often don’t elaborate upon is the struggle to vote, even after the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Neely Tucker for the Library of […]
Read More Has Voting Become A Privilege?I was 15 when I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, otherwise known as PCOS. The age where I was supposed to be learning how to drive and navigate high school course work was suddenly replaced by doctor’s visits and self-negativity. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome is a common condition in women that imbalances hormones in the ovaries. It’s become one of the […]
Read More PCOS Awareness is Important for Women’s HealthVirginia is my soul state. I was born and raised here, went to K-12 up in NOVA before moving to JMU to complete my undergrad, and God do I love it here. The small town feeling of Harrisonburg, with its rolling countryside that feeds into the Blue Ridge Mountains and the kindness shown to me […]
Read More It’s the little things.