Regurgitated Headlines: Stop Body Shaming Celebrities
By: Kiki Kirk The other day I was taking the Metra to work, as I do every day. But this particular day I left my head phones at home. This […]
Category Archives: Gender
Poetry: A Word For You (notes on a search for a gender neutral pronoun)
by: Lindsay Popper Is there a word for the congregations of fireflies just past dusk that fill the fields that line the only road to your house like fallen stars […]
Waiting in Line For the Ladies Room at the Capital: Negotiating 19 Percent
by: Tania Zaparaniuk It would be, awkward, if women made only up 19% of the people in this country. Even as I write this, and say that - I’m hard-pressed to […]
All Together Now: Tammy Baldwin and The Whole Community
by: Alexandra Cavallaro I don’t know about you, but election night felt like a lesson in information management. I sat with two of my friends in their living room and […]
Why I Don’t Use CAFAB
by: Kade Heron The circles that I have recently been running in often throw around the terms CAMAB and CAFAB, translated as ‘Coercively Assigned __ At Birth.” As far as […]
Pop Punk Love: Sometimes Unrequited is Just Another Word For Creepy
by: Amanda Tague The “Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, and they live happily ever after. Or at least until the credits end or the next album comes out,” story […]
The Accidental Anti-Feminist Wave: Blowing Your Troubles Away
by: Sophie Turton There are certain issues in life that are just fact, no matter how much we discuss and berate and liberate, the fact remains just that. Factually women […]
Don’t Paraphrase My Penis: Calling My Surgery What It Is To Me
by: Shelby Green Despite years of trying to assign meaning to it, the act of paraphrasing my penis has been a failure for society. Good. Nietzsche wrote that language assigns […]
On Men Who Think Street Harassment Would Be Awesome
by Miriam Mogilevsky Whenever women are discussing street harassment and what causes it and how to prevent it, a man inevitably comes along to inform us that, actually, our feelings about harassment […]
Reclaiming a History
by: ellie june navidson A few weeks ago i posted a picture of myself on my Facebook account. This isn’t in any way shocking news on its own, but the […]
