FEM Newsmagazine

Heteronormative society ingrains the prejudice or dislike of people who are ‘different.’ Due to gender roles within heteronormativity, it is ‘natural’ to assume that if someone does not fit in one category, they must be…

Within the world of social media, the scrutiny we place on individuals' choices alienates people who aren’t able to be vegan, zero-waste, or adopt other inaccessible lifestyle changes. The people who are able to participate…

Himpathy is a term for the cultural backlash that sympathizes with powerful men accused of sexual assault.

By relegating the East to a submissive, homogenous caricature of otherness, Orientalism has served as a device for the West to preserve its role at the top of the global hierarchy, engendering imperialism and violent…

Sometimes, it might be better for the dead to just stay dead in comics.

If you’ve found yourself either wanting a light-hearted dose of LGBTQ+ rep mixed in with that sweet, sweet, nostalgia of cartoons look no further.

America has always had a glass ceiling for women in professional wrestling, a glass ceiling that Japanese women wrestlers have helped demolish.

For all the praise “Happiest Season” has earned for queer representation, however, the film is also a frustrating reminder that Hollywood and white queer filmmakers…

Though it bears the familiar Marvel Studios logo, "WandaVision" is a sci-fi show all the same. Anything that looks or sounds “normal” in science fiction—…

The film and its characters are self-aware about the misogyny in the “manic pixie dream girl” trope due to the treatment of Lucy in this…

Elites weaponize identity politics to offer us the appearance of progress without the meaningful policy required to improve the lives of marginalized peoples. As we…

Just after the centennial anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, the indigenous Armenians of the Caucasus face yet another threat of extinction as the…

Design by Shannon Boland Image Description: Inverted mirror images of former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard over background of orange and green flags. Content Warning: genocide,…

As a newsmagazine that operates with anti-racism at its center, it is imperative that we speak about George Floyd’s murder and the recent protests against…

The Duterte regime does not seem to know how to properly respond to a public health and food crisis. Whether on our lands or in…

As whispers of dystopian apocalypse become louder, hard skills like gardening grow more and more attractive.

The issue with the lack of empathy in individualistic societies is especially apparent now.

Particularly in academia, we are told that higher education is the only way to gain concrete understanding of a topic, but higher education is inaccessible…

Styles has received much attention and support from Western media in his expression of gender fluid style. In being the first man on the magazine’s…

The changes towards gender-neutral language are an effort to, at the very least, acknowledge the existence of all people who are Latinx. On a larger…

The gender gap in mathematics is closing. And, no, it’s not because girls today are growing larger brains.

Fashion trends need to stop ripping off communities of color without recognition and proclaiming white inventiveness.

A love that turns to raisins in the sun A spring cleaning story: a soft broom against my ribcage

“hAterS oF mEN”

I left my heart in a seashell city

For no lack of romance do I seek this out. This white cotton bed-room of a flight-jacket wearing dandy.

I thought, “What the hell, I’ll keep them,” and made those eight or nine cigarettes last me another couple months.

They know we’re desperate to be out of the prison, and they know we’re going to give it our all so they use that energy…