Essays
Body Dysmorphia and The Legend of The Pretty Fat Girl
Posted on 08/1/2012
I have struggled to accept my body, and to be reminded that at one point I was a “pretty fat girl” puts me back into that state of mind, of needing that club. (Mind you, most of us were not even fat; it should have been called Body Dysmorphia Club.)
Read On...Top 5 Feminist TV Shows of 2012
Posted on 07/2/2012
Now that the 2011-2012 TV season has wrapped, it’s time to revisit the returning top five feminist TV shows and see who still makes the grade! Who got bumped up and who got booted altogether?
Read On...Juliana Tyson’s Story-Driven Campaign For A Woman’s Right To Choose
Posted on 05/30/2012
In a time when a woman’s right to contraception and reproductive healthcare has come under increasingly intense fire, Juliana Tyson is speaking out. Her mission: to help eradicate the stigma surrounding abortion with her storytelling project ProMYLife.
Read On...New Eyes for an Old Soul
Posted on 02/29/2012
As an ambitious, perfectionistic, workaholic who doesn’t know how to not be stressed out at all times, I approach life with a to-do list. I have treated life as a thing to accomplish rather than a space within which to live.
Read On...The Part of Domestic Violence That Nobody Talks About
Posted on 02/29/2012
Wouldn’t we all like to pretend we weren’t frighteningly wrong about somebody we loved? Wouldn’t we all like to take the worst moments of our lives and find a way to make them disappear? That’s how the cycle of abuse works.You don’t just want to move past this gut-wrenching, awful thing that happened; you desperately want to forget that it happened at all. You want to go back to a time when your world wasn’t ripped apart at the foundation, when you understood your life and your place in it.
Read On...Checking Facebook frequently leads to reinforcement of gender ideals
Posted on 01/12/2012
People check their facebooks multiple times a day. The accessibility of this new form of media means that people interact with gender expectations with greater frequency than with traditional forms of media like television and magazines.
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