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Featured UCLA Feminist: Saloni Kothari
To Saloni, feminism is not about empowerment, because women are already powerful. Rather, it is about changing how people perceive that power, including women themselves.
DetailsPiercing Politics: Deconstructing Beauty Norms
“Are we actually going through with this?” asked my longtime partner in crime, Kelli Hsu, as we strutted into Santa Monica’s Ancient Adornments piercing shop that we impulsively selected. “Hell yes,” I declared as our restless energy overpowered the store’s mellow environment. I was determined to leave the shop that day with a new piece…
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Body Dysmorphia and Inherited Trauma in the Stolen Generation
Fulbright scholar Dr. Stephanie Gilbert argues in her research that the forced removals experienced by the Stolen Generation of indigenous children in Australia resulted in a collective body dysmorphia, as well as the possibility of trauma being passed down through inherited memory.
Details‘Assassin’s Creed’ and The Importance of A Female Odyssey
Even if heroes and their journeys are typically imagined as male-centered, stories should not be afraid of breaking the mold and depicting women having their own odysseys.
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Featured UCLA Feminist: Erika L. Ganier
“I believe you can speak your reality into existence,” Erika had smiled at me as we walked to my apartment, sunlight beaming over the flowers in her hair. The California wildfires had upset her throat that morning, so she had worn a crown of sunflowers to make herself feel better — it also made her radiant.
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