Dialogue and Opinion
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January 16, 2020
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Fawn Brodie
Fawn McKay Brodie (1915-1981) was one of the first women to become a tenured professor at UCLA, a controversial biographer,…
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December 17, 2019
Fighting Fatphobia: A Feminist Take on Weight
Diets are replaced by detoxes or lifestyle changes; instead of weigh-in meetings, WW customers now attend “Wellness Workshops.” But underneath…
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December 5, 2019
GirlDefined, Biblical Womanhood, and the Woman’s Holy War
Biblical womanhood positions us as modern-day Atlases, holding the world on our backs.
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November 15, 2019
Observations from the Psych Ward
Ultimately, I am not in the psych ward to find all the answers to my questions, and certainly not to…
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November 14, 2019
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Kate Millett
Kate Millett (1934-2017) was an American feminist theorist, activist, writer, educator and filmmaker. Her main areas of interest were mental…
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November 5, 2019
Razors, Hair Positivity and Femvertising on Instagram
I begin to fall into the marketing trap. Suddenly, I feel the need to consume these products that are being…
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April 13, 2019
Feminism 101: What is Himpathy?
Himpathy is a term for the cultural backlash that sympathizes with powerful men accused of sexual assault.
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April 10, 2019
Feminism 101: What is Orientalism?
By relegating the East to a submissive, homogenous caricature of otherness, Orientalism has served as a device for the West…
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April 10, 2019
Feminism 101: What is the Gender Binary?
Design by Elizabeth Gomez The strict dichotomy of male and female may seem to be the natural way of organizing…
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March 23, 2019
Women Online Are Content
Technology, particularly social media, has not dismantled the constraints and tyrannies of identity so much as it has replaced their…
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