A Theatre Minor’s Thoughts on the Vagina Monologues
By Kyra Charles Last year, I caved to the advertisements around campus for the Vagina Monologues and went to go see it. I hadn’t a clue what to expect. Two dozen women, most of whom…
Gender Stereotypes
How Wedding Culture Almost Ruined My Wedding
By Elise Wantling My now-fiancé and I began discussing the possibility of getting engaged in early January of this year, and that was when the problem started. Dreaming of my wedding day was never really…
Warner Brother’s Dangerous Dame
By Maggie Pool Ruth Elizabeth “Bette” Davis was an American actress on film, television, and theater. With a career spanning over 60 years, Davis is known as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history,…
Dorothy Arzer : Hollywood’s Most Prominent Woman Director
By Maggie Pool Director, editor, and screenwriter, Dorothy Arzner is one of the most prolific woman studio directors in the history of American cinema. She was the only woman directing feature-length studio films in Hollywood…
The First Woman to Make Feminism Fashionable
By Maggie Pool Hollywood Actress, Katharine Hepburn will always be remembered for her fierce and fiery performances in film. After all, she still holds the record for the most Academy Awards (in either gender) for…
Why I Choose Not To Wear Makeup
By Anonymous After I graduated from high school, I made the decision to stop wearing makeup. I vividly remember looking at myself in the mirror without makeup and being scared to really look at my…
Perpetuating Gender Stereotypes or Empowering Strong Women?
By: Anonymous The Netflix movie, Falling Inn Love released on August 29, 2019, follows a young woman who moves to New Zealand to renovate a rundown inn after losing her job and boyfriend. She ends…
The 2019 Vagina Monologues
By Mackinzie Aulgur “…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.”- Eve Ensler We all deserve to be ourselves, stand up for…
Internalized Misogyny: What does it look like? How do you stop it?
By Nina Cherry As feminists, we confidently believe that we view everyone equally, but internalized misogyny sits somewhere in most of us. But what is internalized misogyny? What does that even mean? Until recently, I…
No More Bossy Girls
By Nina Cherry It seems that I have been taking initiative since the day I was born. I am a natural born leader, a perfectionist, and I like things done correctly and in a timely matter.…