By Morgan Paul Earlier this week I sat down with a good friend of mine to talk about body image. While I’ve been incredibly fortunate to be surrounded by a supportive peer ground, I wanted…
By Amber Charleville After the recent events of Maryville, a story so close to home (Maryville is an hour and a half north of Kansas City), I thought it might be a good idea to…
By Maritza Gordillo I came across this article on Facebook and it is just shocking. One of the fraternity brothers of the Phi Kappa Tao at Georgia Tech decided to write an explicit email to his…
When I read about “Stop Telling Women to Smile” by Brooklyn-based artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, I was struck; it is a fantastic visual display aiming to raise awareness about street harassment and violence against women. The Huffington Post…
By Morgan Paul [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPZpQhqONXU&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] As many of you may know, Sunday was topless day! As nice as that sounds on hot days like today, it has much more meaning than just avoiding tan lines and…
By Courtney Neaveill “Gwyneth Paltrow lipstick lesbian”: Google that and you will get over two pages of results – all of which reference a recent interview that Ms. Paltrow gave with Harpaar’s Bizarre. The 39…
By Arzie Umali [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUbI8L90bFY[/youtube]Retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has done it again. Known for controversies such as their risqué print advertisements with half-naked people and accusations of discriminatory hiring, now the retailer is selling padded, push-up…
By Erica Rose The January 2011 issue of Essence Magazine poses a major question about rapper/artist Lil Wayne and that is “can Weezy start over now that he has a second chance?” For all of…
By Devon White [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjhCEhWiKXk&feature=channel[/youtube] In light of the Women’s Center recent body-positive initiatives like Love Your Body Day and a screening of documentaries that address self image and encourages and supports the awareness of positive…
In a recent column in the New York Times, writer Maureen Dowd discussed a group of young men who were setting up a “fantasy draft league”. However, this league was not for football or basketball,…