Sluts have been roaming the streets of Toronto, Boston, and Chicago to name a few cities. Not just sluts, but the worst kind of sluts, college student sluts. The SlutWalk is the organized march of women to take back the word slut. The SlutWalk was spurred by the comments of a Toronto police officer to […]
Read more "Sluts on the Loose: Student Activism Today"Last year I was in charge of filling out the census for my house. Being a history student, I was very excited to be involved in history. My roommates, however, were not as thrilled. I wanted to be as accurate as possible, so I hounded them for days to help me. Finally we sat down […]
Read more "Question Eight"In 2009, a student at Carpinteria high school petitioned to change the mascot. The Carpinteria Warriors mascot was of a plains Indian with facial features that offend many Native Americans. The mascot was armed with feathers and sacred “religious tools.” The school board voted to approve her petition, after all the mascot was old and the […]
Read more "Who cares about a mascot?"When I first moved to the East Coast everyone asked me if I had been to this magical place called Foxwoods. The way people described it I thought Foxwoods was some kind of an oasis. To say the least, I was thoroughly disappointed to find out that it was just an Indian casino. Gambling is […]
Read more "The Magical Foxwoods"The visibility of lesbian culture in modern America is greater than ever before, however, it is plagued by stereotypes. The stereotypes run the gambit from the glamour of The L Word to the overly sexualized lesbian fantasy of the male sphere. Popular culture’s display of lesbian couples such as Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi […]
Read more "Butch Today, Femme Tomorrow"I remember the first time I saw someone wearing this t-shirt. I was at an after party in downtown LA for a comedy show. I didn’t get the message that this was going to be a hipster party. It was obvious that I forgot my ironic eyeglasses and converse high tops. Little did I know that […]
Read more "Is this racist?"What is a stroller? Is there really nothing more to a stroller than a mode of transportation? It is just something our mom’s and dad’s used to get us from one place to another. It is silly to say the choice of one’s automobile doesn’t have any meaning. Cars and trucks tell us about people’s […]
Read more "What Race is Your Stroller?"Museum exhibits have a purpose: they tell a story, they teach you something, and they make you think. Behind the scenes at a museum, people are working to help us learn and understand this story, but who should decide what we should learn from a museum? This question becomes even more complicated when we consider […]
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