Forgive this corny segue, but I thought of it and now I can’t resist: Cycles abound in environmentalism. There’s the water cycle, the recycling system, and cycling to work to reduce one’s carbon footprint. There’s a fourth kind of cycle that doesn’t get the press it should, however, and that’s the menstrual cycle. Mother Jones [...]
In case you haven’t heard, abortion rights were dealt a major blow this week when the Arkansas state legislature voted to override the governor’s veto and pass a bill into law that bans abortion at around 12 weeks. The law, called the “Human Heartbeat Protection Act,” bans abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected with [...]
As February comes to a close and we wind down from the victory of passing an inclusive Violence Against Women Act and the frustration that such a debate had to happen in the first place, we can’t just sit back and relax. We can’t sit back because… It’s coming… Closer and closer… And before you [...]
I am a Virginian through and through – I was born here, raised here, educated here, and I have worked here for all of my twenty two years. I love this commonwealth (not state; that’s right, I know VA’s quirks) with all of my heart, but I can’t trust it when it comes to reproductive [...]
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The decision to join a sorority can be a defining moment in a woman’s college career. Nevertheless, the media depicts college Greek life in a very specific way. If you take the two movies Sydney White (2007) and The House Bunny (2008), sororities are either full of rich, vain girls or helpless nerds. In both [...]
The media hype and attention in the weeks leading up to the 2013 Super bowl in New Orleans has ignored a growing problem surrounding the largest sporting event in American culture — sex trafficking. Super Bowls have unfortunately become the bedrock to this inhumane underground market, trafficking in thousands of men, women, and children from [...]
Whether you’re reading this from your laptop, smartphone, or tablet, on a Wi-Fi network or 4G network, we all use the internet to connect to the world around us. While the bulk of feminist history has been made offline, in the last decade the juncture between the internet and feminism has become unavoidable. This has [...]
Had someone told me when I accepted my admittance to Georgetown University that I would subsequently be relinquishing my basic rights as a female and accepting a status as second-class citizen, I probably would have picked a different university. Now this is not to imply that I don’t love my school, I do, but I [...]
There is a lot of love out there for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. One can imagine the excitement, then, when it was announced several weeks ago that the creative powerhouses would be co-hosting the 2013 Golden Globes in lieu of Ricky Gervais. This was a slam dunk for Hollywood — for the past few [...]
Sexual assault is much more than just a women’s issue. Survivors of sexual violence can be male or female, straight or gay, young or old. Anyone can be a survivor. We also know that attackers have the ability to fit a range of descriptors. Despite this reality, sexual assault is still often portrayed as something [...]
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