On Women and Wine
Wine as we know it embodies the construct of the feminine, traded in our cultural circles as the sensual, lighter counterpart to masculinized beer.
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Assata Shakur
A teacher, healer, freedom fighter, and aunt to hip hop legend Tupac, Assata Shakur has organized against the prison-industrial complex, police brutality, discriminatory education, poverty, addiction, and hunger in Black and Brown neighborhoods.
Navigating Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day, by promoting the concept of an “ideal” family, mother, and mother-child relationship, excludes and alienates families that don’t fit that ideal. As a result, the holiday has become for many people a large source of distress, guilt, and shame.
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Adichie, a Nigerian novelist, is one of the latest women to join the lineage of iconic feminist writers like Maya Angelou, Adrienne Rich and Toni Morrison in their literary portrayal of women’s voices.
Menstruation Beyond PMS and Ibuprofen
There are many aspects of menstruation that are continuosly misunderstood including the basic processes that constitute the menstrual cycle, who experiences menstruation and its symptoms, or which symptoms are “normal” and which are more dangerous.
Feminism 101: What is TERF?
The reality is, gender exists on a spectrum — not a binary. So people who identify as one extreme of the spectrum, even if it does not match up with one’s biological sex, are equally valid, and those who identify as a woman should not feel like any less even if they were not born biologically female; what matters is how they feel and identify within.
Relationships, Activism, and Self-Care
To those readers who are of a more progressive nature, let me reiterate that it is not your job to constantly actualize activism and cure everyone, primarily those with whom you are close, of the aspects of their principles which you may find distasteful.
Feminism 101: What is Postcolonial Feminism?
Postcolonial feminism resists Euro-American feminists’ tendency to universalize the shape oppression takes for women in various sociopolitical and historical contexts.
Words Matter: The Importance of Language and Labels
Our words have the ability to re-write narratives, redistribute power, and shift understanding in whatever direction we choose. They are not neutral objects of little significance and should never be disregarded, especially as we enter this new “post-truth era.”
Expanding Empathy in the Wake of the Muslim Ban(s)
In emphasizing the tragedy of intellectuals barred from the United States, and in veiling the stories of average people affected, we have conflated Western tropes of success with the right to live.