by Aviv Rau and Calliope Wong As teenage girls and former consumers of alternative and feminist publications and blogs circulating the Internet today, we’ve noticed a disappointing trend of girls with pale skin, knobby knees, thigh gaps, and pastel hair being featured almost exclusively. In fact, the trends are so exclusive that they’ve turned us…
by Calliope Wong I’m Calliope, pre-med English major at the University of Connecticut Honors Program. I’m also 5’8” and the daughter of Chinese immigrants from very different backgrounds, my mother from mainland Nanjing, my father from the once-British-colony Hong Kong. Looking at me, most people’s reaction is probably that I’m an awkward-turtle Nerd™—true!—and I make…
by Calliope Wong On April 24, 2014, student activists at Smith College and their Five-College Consortium allies held a “Trans Women Belong Here” demonstration to both protest their college’s trans woman exclusionary application policies, as well as to put pressure on the college to accept activist group Smith Q&A’s proposal of a gender supplement with…