College Feminisms
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS:A Statement of Clarification Acknowledging The Presence of Rape Culture
By Dani Cofini and Kelly Casey According to feminist theory, rape culture is defined as the normalization, victim-blaming, and tolerance that often pardons rape and...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Open Letter Addressing the UConn Community
By Victoria Rossetti, Rebecca Barton, and Stephanie Naranjo To the UConn Community: This letter is in response to the events surrounding Carolyn Luby’s open letter...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Video: What is Feminism?
By Ashley Yenick During this video, I consulted two students and two professors at Merrimack College. I hand picked these interviewees because they contribute to millennial...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: On Using the 'F' Word as a Queer WOC
By Claudia Chen The other day I was watching student presentations in my African American Women’s History class. One of the students’ research, which focused...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: A Seemingly Crazy, Yet Sincere Call for a Bra-less Revolution
By Elvia Lopez Bill Cosby knows that kids say the darndest things. Lying by the pool yesterday, I overheard my little brother tell my rather...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: 2 Poems by Chenusa Yomoah
“Ode to Eyeliner” It would be so easy to forget vanity. Parisians preen themselves in shop windows and the Tokyo metro is a powder room,...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Capitalism: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
By Ariane Beckman A few months ago, The Catalyst, an independent student newspaper published at my school, Colorado College, published an article entitled “Why I...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Dear UConn Social Justice Community…
We are calling for your support in an escalating situation on the UConn campus. A student published an open letter to the UConn President on The...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Open Letter in Response to the Backlash at Uconn
By Nathaniel Herter I’d like to preface this article by noting that while news stories might upset, they rarely leave me shaking with rage, and that...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Beyond Duty
By Paul Seltzer On August 23, 2012, the George Washington University’s independent student newspaper, The GW Hatchet, reported that rising senior Tori Guy was transferring. ...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: An Open Letter to UConn President Susan Herbst
Dear President Susan Herbst, I write to you today as a UConn student, but more specifically as a UConn woman and feminist. I want to...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: You Become an Anti-Racist Feminist
By Cori Mattli When you are 18 and in college, you take a class that introduces you to feminism. You like thinking about feminist theory–it gives...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Why I Haven't Given Up on Hip-Hop
By Amber Jones When did you first fall in love with hip-hop? This question frames one of my favorite films, Brown Sugar (2002). The film...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Perpetuating Patriarchy (And Other Liberal Arts-isms)
By Natalie Olivo The true tempo of my college’s student body occasionally emerges on a double-sided sheet of paper that circulates around campus five days a...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Millennial Feminists, Stand Up!
By Ashley Yenick Many college-aged women have a skewed view of feminism and how it might apply to them. Millennial feminism was brought to my...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Pre-Launch Video: Asking for Kale *trigger warning, discusses rape* (by students at Tufts University)
For more information, please visit: Tufts Action for Sexual Assault Prevention: http://tuftsasap.org/ Boston Area Rape Crisis Center: http://www.barcc.org/ Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network: http://www.rainn.org/
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Pre-Launch Video: Representations of Black women in Media (students at Royal Holloway)
ACS committee interviewed students about the representation of black women in the media as part of their joint event with the Feminism Society at Royal...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Pre-Launch Video: Representations of Gender in Advertising (by students at the University of Saskatchewan)
This video was a school project created for a Women and Gender Studies class at the University of Saskatchewan by Sarah, Kayla and Dylan. Their...