Entertainment
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Step One: Show Skin, Step Two: Praise Talent: A Look at Scarlett Johansson and the Film Industry
By Megan Felder I’ve always loved movies. A lot. Romantic comedy, sci-fi, superhero action – you name it, I will watch it. Perhaps that’s why...
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Blood (Orange) on the Tracks
I have been listening to the new Blood Orange album, Cupid Deluxe, twice a day for the past few weeks. A friend suggested it for...
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Elementary Feminisms: Anthem for a New Breed
By Victoria Schulte The word “feminist” is loaded and can carry bad connotations. The word “feminist,” often generates two types of thoughts; (1) social, economic, and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Poetry By Jaclyn Weber
The Walking Dead Girl in my history class totally started looking like a zombie from The Walking Dead. ...
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Dancing While Black
My friend read the letters DWB on my computer screen, assumed they were the acronym for “driving while black” and wondered what racial profiling had...
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We Need More Than Pink Cleats
By Kiana Cox Every October the NFL, in partnership with the American Cancer Society, adorns itself in pink to raise awareness about and funds for...
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I’m Not Judi Dench. So Why the Hell Would I Forgive?
By Aine Greaney Once, on an expatriate trip back to my native Ireland, I took my mug of tea to the big kitchen window of...
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No More Disposable Love: Expanding the Bechdel Test for Movies
By Lily July Imagine a TV world where being rejected by a woman meant sending her a respectful “Sorry it didn’t work out” note and...
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Rethinking Dear White People: One Viewer Questions its Depiction of Microagressions for Today’s Youth
By Monique John While only recently picked up by Lionsgate Films, Dear White People has had the Internet buzzing for over a year. The indie...
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The Colbert Report and White Privilege: Satire I don’t believe in
By Michelle Medina I am a fan of The Daily Show. I am a fan of Jon Stewart and his cultural resistance to the status...
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Op-Ed: Body Politic (or, Skinny Hate: Maria Kang, Gwyneth Paltrow, and the New Misogyny)
By Laila Pedro As a longtime dancer now working as a scholar, writer, and media strategist, I am (often to my detriment) deeply and constantly...
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Mad (at) Men’s March Madness
Dr. Cheryl Cooky writes about March Madness 2014 in order to problematize how media shapes our interests in sport and our cultural beliefs about gender....
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Op-Ed: What We Lose When We Focus Our Discussion on Jared Leto Rather than Rayon: Queer Politics and the Forgotten Heroes of the AIDS Crisis
By Mairead Sullivan While Rayon’s death in the Dallas Buyers Club was not the stereotypical death of a tragic transgender character, it was a tragic...
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Nicki Minaj and Pretty Taking All Fades: Performing the Erotics of Feminist Solidarity
By Jillian Hernandez and Anya M. Wallace This essay aims to consider an erotics of feminist solidarity, not a solidarity that only decries the...
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(En)Gendering Greatness: Caught Between Richard Sherman and a Hard Place
By Tikia K. Hamilton “I’m the shit!” You will probably never hear me utter these words, even though, on most days, I must quietly remind...
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Trans Is the New Black?: On CeCe McDonald, Mister Cee, Orange Is The New Black, and Trans Women of Color
By Jasmine Salters Last week, the appearance of Orange Is the New Black actress Laverne Cox and former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant and trans model Carmen Carrerra on...
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The Sexual Geopolitics of Popular Culture and Transnational Black Feminism
By Janell Hobson While the debate raged on toward the end of 2013 concerning Beyoncé’s feminist politics – especially in her sampling of celebrated Nigerian...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Understanding My Juicy Thighs, Thanks to Jenny from the Block
By Jamie McKaie The biography sat on the bookshelf of my fourth grade classroom, as if patiently waiting for me. The bell rang. Ring. I ran for...
