How Listening Led to Speaking Up
By Chris Howard-Williams In my last blog, I started exploring the lessons I need to remember as I learn what it is to be a… Read More »How Listening Led to Speaking Up
By Chris Howard-Williams In my last blog, I started exploring the lessons I need to remember as I learn what it is to be a… Read More »How Listening Led to Speaking Up
By Maleigha Michael When I was younger, I learned the colors of the rainbow through the mnemonic, ROY-G-BIV (red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet). It was a color rule that… Read More »Sexism in Colors – Why is Pink for Girls and Blue for Boys?
By Ann Varner Last week, the UMKC Women’s Center bought the book The Handmaid’s Tale and less than a week later I finished reading it.… Read More »Book or TV Series: The Handmaid’s Tale is some scary sh*t
By Ann Varner I like to buy men’s clothes, especially coats and shirts. Why? Because they have pockets. And not the pockets that can barely… Read More »Women Need Pockets
By Kara Lewis Who’s already overwhelmed by their semester reading list? *Raises hand* While making a dent in one of my 10-pound textbooks this week,… Read More »Back to school, back in time: When old books and modern ideas clash
By Caroline Turner As kids, some of us dealt with school uniforms. Luckily for me, I did not. I would have hated the idea of… Read More »The Dress Code
By: Caroline Turner Why do we notice women in the news for what they are wearing, and men in the news for what they are… Read More »Woman with the Pencil, Not the Pencil Skirt
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckc21Cdblsc[/youtube] By Matiara Huff This slam poetry video featuring Reagan Meyers a great description of what it feels like when a women’s personal space is… Read More »Personal Space
By Zaquoya Rogers The Netflix series “Orange is the New Black” highlights many different female experiences that tend to occur in prisons across the globe.… Read More »Transwomen in Prison
By Zaquoya Rogers Many people are convinced that women are not trusted to know when their body needs medical attention. Can you imagine that? … Read More »It’s Not in My Head: The Hysterical Woman Stereotype