by Kim Nguyen While many of us are happy to see 2016 end, I feel the coming year will require fierce resistance, solidarity and deep connection. This past election took quite a toll on many of us and I didn’t expect that I would be so emotionally and psychologically affected by the political climate of…
by Angela Batuure I went to a weird elementary school. It was a hybrid between co-educational and single sex classrooms. The idea was that as children grow older, the differences between the ways boys and girls learned beomce more distinct: kindergartners and first graders had co-ed classes, but from second grade to 8th grade, the…
by Maya Brown, Sam Holmes, and Madeleine Nesbitt In the past couple of weeks, the media has blown up about why the first female executive editor of the New York Times, Jill Abramson, was fired. Some sources claimed that she was fired because she brought in a lawyer to talk with her boss, Arthur Sulzberger,…
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…
by Annemarie McDaniel When I was in 12th grade, I asked my parents to buy me a subscription to TIME Magazine so I could learn more about current events before heading off to college. I still remember when the TIME 100 Most Influential came in the mail, and the glossy collage of famous faces on…
by Julia Bluhm When girls are young, Cinderella tells them “dreams really do come true.” As we get older, that philosophy changes and we learn that life isn’t actually a fairytale. You have to work hard in order to achieve something great, and even then it doesn’t always happen. For me, ballet started as a…
by Ty Slobe Whether we’re talking online or IRL, it seems that everyone takes issue with the ways that girls and women communicate: our voices, spelling, abbreviations, styles, words, manner, and language as a whole are discussed like we are orally spreading the plague. Our communication styles are scrutinized and blatantly judged by journalists and…
by Julia Bluhm Everywhere we look, we see girls being mean. We’ve seen it in the movies that followed cliques of rich white girls on bullying sprees, the countless reality TV shows that feature women yelling at each other and the dozens of baking/fashion/modeling/wedding competition shows that attempt to gain viewers by pitting contestants against…