gender
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Dialogue and Opinion
America’s Distorted Perception of West Asia and West Asian People
The Southwest Asian and North African identities are conveniently pushed and pulled between white and brown and manipulated in order…
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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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