gender
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Dialogue and Opinion
The Masculinization of Body Hair
Removing unwanted body hair isn’t pretty — but Eurocentric beauty standards make the process feel worth it.
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Feminist Theorist Thursdays
Feminist Theorist Thursdays: Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed is a British-Australian author who describes herself as a “feminist killjoy, affect alien, [and] angry queer woman of…
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Entertainment
Respectability Politics in the Music Industry
The music sphere is so much more than the sparkles and glamour that it attempts to convey in the media.…
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Arts and Creative
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Stigma Around Female Rappers
The stigma surrounding women in the music industry, particularly rap, is an indication of broader and extremely pervasive institutional sexism…While…
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Dialogue and Opinion
Gender in Quarantine
Quarantine has the potential to allow for greater exploration of one’s gender expression and identity. The lack of in-person social…
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Dialogue and Opinion
Why Gender-Neutral Solutions Don’t Work
False gender neutrality only serves to benefit those at the top as long as power is distributed unequally.
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Dialogue and Opinion
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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Campus Life
Time to Think About Gender: Coverage on the Thinking Gender Conference & Pre-Existing Conditions
FEM attended UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women (CSW) 28th annual graduate student research conference, Thinking Gender: Pre-existing Conditions,…
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Campus Life
Featured UCLA Feminist: Jada Banks-Mace
Feminism gives Jada the confidence and faith in herself that society often fails to instill in her, and she hopes…
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