My Latest Piece at HuffPost: “What’s So Bad About Being Good”
My Latest Piece at HuffPost Examines what’s so bad about “acting like a man” and “acting like a Lady” from an Aristotelean and feminist perspective. You can check out the article Here. Excerpt is below. Please share with others. Gendered virtues also perpetuate patriarchy. To have “feminine virtues” like chastity, modesty and obedience is what […]
Dare To Use The F-Word
Barnard College has a new podcast series called “Dare To Use The F-Word.” Of course F-Word stands for “Feminism”. Podcast titles such as “Perfection”, “Image and Media”, and “Street Harassment” is available for your listening pleasure. More from their website: Dare to Use the F-Word tells the stories of today’s feminists through the art, the […]
Gender, Sexuality, & Hip-Hop Conference (A look Back)
Words can not explain the wonderful and inspiring time I had at the Gender, Sexuality, and Hip Hop conference at Tulane University last weekend. I learned so much and met some awesome people. You can read the paper I presented here entitled, “Nicki Minaj and the Permissibility of Feminine Bisexuality in Homophobic Hiphop”, as well […]
Why I Need Feminism? Cambridge Students (and Myself) Respond
This post comes directly from Life Neurotic, where Cambridge University students were asked why they need Feminism. In what follows are a few of my favorites and also a few of my own responses.
How Men Are Trained to Hate Women
This Article by David Wong at cracked.com is simply Brilliant. It’s a humorous yet solid argument of how men are trained to hate women. He provides five reasons how that happens: 1) men are taught they are owed a beautiful woman, 2) men are trained at birth to see women as decorations, 3) men are […]
I’m Feminist Enough to…
I’m loving these videos from I’m Feminist Enough, a project created by Shannon Washington. In it, black women who consider themselves feminists, give us their mantras and their life codes. To me, feminism is realizing that women have value and worth as much as men. It’s the willingness to speak up and out about sexist […]