Amy Trivers
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Empowered Expression
Our Names in Your Mouth
Our anatomy confounded / Unbounded / Strone across the floor / To be pieced together / By your hands /…
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Campus Life
Consent Walk at UCLA: Because I Refuse to be Silenced
Today I participated in Consent Walk, an event hosted by 7000 in Solidarity to inform students about the meaning and significance of…
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Campus Life
The Clothesline Project at UCLA
"The Clothesline Project (CLP) is a program started on Cape Cod, MA, in 1990 to address the issue of violence…
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Uncategorized
The Fear of “Strange Men”: A Childhood Lesson
While girls are objectified, sexualized, and told that inequalities in treatment are “natural,” the girls who grow up scared of…
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Empowered Expression
Upcoming: “Rebirth”—-FEM’s Fall 2013 Quarterly Magazine
“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard,…
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Dialogue and Opinion
We Are Not Apologies
As my body has been broken up into portions of my face and little pieces of my anatomy, the clothing…
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Could You Laugh at Rape?
The resounding laughter that accompanied the word rape, spewed out of at least five mouths. It was a threatening chorus…
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Dialogue and Opinion
Watchful Fatherly Eye
The double standard that girls are supposed to show less skin to exemplify discretion and dignity, while at the same…
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“Don’t Get Raped,” He Said
Because I have been socialized to avoid conflict rather than confront it, my instinct was to keep running away from…
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Campus Life
Listening to Landfair
Oh Landfair. The Avenue of Frats and apartments composed of entire sports teams. It is expected to be loud, rowdy,…
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