Why Women Need to Stop Apologizing for Everything
by: Emily Heist Moss Note: This piece was originally featured on Role/Reboot, you can view the original here. When we begin every sentence with “I’m sorry, but…” we think we’re being […]
Category Archives: Women
Coconut Love: Tales of a Closeted Virgin
by: Caitlin Bergh When I was a sophomore in college, I was sitting in my room doing homework one afternoon when I overheard some friends in the hallway talking about […]
An Imperfect Deconstruction: The Cultural Effects of On The Road
by: Kevin Doherty In his day, Jack Kerouac defined a new generation of writers: the Beat generation. He and authors like him grew up reading the works of Francis Scott […]
Gendercide Disguised As Fetal Healthcare
by: Cassandra Warren I recently read a short article summarizing the findings from a paper in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Forum for Ethical and Legal Debate, which […]
Slasher Style Ethics: The Conservative Discussion of Rape
by: Johnny Gall There’s no reason for me to rehash why exactly the comments of Todd Akin are awful and extremely offensive to rape victims everywhere, and indeed to anyone […]
HuffPo and the Changing Iconograpy of the Abortion Debate
by: Emily Heist Moss Yowza, kinda smacks you in the face, doesn’t it? I’m not a huge fan of journalistic sensationalism, of which this most certainly suffers, but sometimes the […]
Girl World Criminal: My Pubic Shame
by: Caitlin Bergh When I was growing up, I had the white, middle-class privilege of going to sleep away camp. It was a beautiful all-girls camp on a lake, where […]
Our Bodies Are Amazing: Why I Talk About My Period
by: Bobby Crowley I never wanted to be “That Girl.” Throughout middle school and high school, boys would always ask me a bunch of questions, figuring I was the only […]
Her: A Story in Perspective
by: Kristen Field It hits you like a car on the road driving at a hundred kilometres an hour. She looks just like her: the same, but different. She’s younger, […]
Are Books These Days Empowering Young Women?
by: Khai Devon When I was 10 years old, I read Jane Eyre for the first time. It’s a silly book, really and I know this now because I’m 24, […]
