Getting on the interstate again and I shuffle onto Spotify’s New Music Friday because they usually have some outstanding picks. I was pleasantly surprised to see Lorde come through with…
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It’s a Tinder Subject: Limitations of Sexuality, Gender Performance, and Visibility within Matchmaking Applications
October 1, 2015Thank you to MTV for sponsoring today’s post and encouraging me to discover their new show “Are You The One?”! American consumers are no strangers to websites and applications geared…
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You Say You Want a Revolution?
December 5, 2014“I like it in the city when two worlds collide. You get the people and the government, everybody taking different sides. Shows that we ain’t gonna stand shit, shows that…
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Just Another Common _________ Girl
March 4, 2014When considering the most offensive language and discourse in our society, much of the rhetoric has origins in pejoratives. Racism is far from dead in our society, but the ways…
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Underwear, Consumerism, and The Real Woman
February 5, 2014On January 17, 2014, Aerie by American Eagle launched a campaign entitled #AerieReal. The company, which predominantly sells bras, underwear, and athletic apparel, vowed to no longer use Photoshopped and otherwise retouched…
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Why We Are The Way We Are: Women in the Media
December 8, 2013Since adding my second major in Gender and Women’s Studies and delving deep into the history of women’s movements and organizing in the United States and transnationally, I’ve come to…