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 […]
Tag Archives: Women
Poetry: The Ring
by: Elaine Body I was looking around a hair and beauty salon When I heard two girls talking to each other One of the girls working there asked the […]
Poetry: Musings from a Psychological Statistics Class
by: Sarah Stringer I’ve never liked bell curves. The beauty of a scatterplot: sprinkled dots in art without design, is forced into a pattern of normally distributed slopes. We devote […]
Unmaking Equality: Now All Can Kill
by: Agnieszka Karoluk On Thursday, January 24th Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the US military will lift the ban on women serving in combat. Many women’s groups and feminist […]
Being Seen as a Moral Equal, and the Freedom of Choosing to Participate:Views on Women in Combat
by: Mariann Devlin Once I got into a long-winded Facebook debate about equal pay with a friend who was a liberal activist. It began when he posted a chart showing […]
In Defense of the Use of the Term “Friendzone”
By J.N. Reyna Note: This piece was originally published on the author’s blog and reposted with permission. You can find the original here. Only recently did I become aware of “The […]
Better Than a “Sure Thing”: Pink Loves Consent, If Only
by: Kara Crawford I am not a big fan of either Victoria’s Secret or their PINK line. I have no fundamental problem with lingerie; in fact, I fully affirm sexy […]
Ask Jenn Vicious: Affordable Self Defense
by: Jenn Vicious Jenn Vicious is the rad-queer Agony Aunt, need advice on communications with multiple partners, what to wear to court, or just need general life coaching, Ask Jenn. […]
Running From My Body: Now Living Beyond the “Womanly” Dichotomy
by: Mallory Eris In my last semester of college, I basked in the glory of only having to take 12 credit hours while training for a marathon. Having been running on […]
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 […]
