Feminist Bloggers Take Action
On Friday September 23, 2011, I attended a conference at Barnard College on Manhattan’s Upper West Side with my fellow students enrolled in the feminism course at LREI with our teacher. The conference...
View ArticleIs There Enough Awareness About Feminism?
Did you know that between 2000 and 2011 Internet use increased by 480% around the world? Feminist bloggers are well aware of the fact that we are becoming more and more dependent on the Internet. Just...
View ArticleWhy The World Needs Feminism
Rush Limbaugh: "I'm Not Opposed To Women! It's FEMINISM I Oppose!" ...thanks for clearing that up, Rush. From conservative mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh, who asserts that “Feminism was established to allow...
View ArticleRecognizing Privilege and Rejecting White Feminism as a Young White Woman
My feminism class after we finished our “mic drop” International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women assembly, 2017 (Photo credit: Jonathan Hodge) After the assembly my high school...
View ArticleSay her name. Recognize her work. Value her life.
“We struggle with black men against racism while also struggling with black men about sexism.” This line from the Combahee River Collective’s Black Feminist Statement has stayed with me since the first...
View ArticleUncovering Healing Through Black/Brown Trans-Women’s Beauty
“I am not beautiful, I am baggage!” -Darielle Fernandez Last year, on a train ride home I wrote a piece about what I had internalized about myself. I wrote about hating my broad shoulders, my tall...
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