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Wearing My Womanhood
My womanhood wears me like a skirt too tight in the wintertime, muscles shrinking into the claustrophobic cloth, too cold to believe that a woman is still inside of it My womanhood suffocates, each leg crammed in, worn out like each letter of my name by the men who say it My womanhood…
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Can you be an American Woman and Apolitical?
In the documentary “Miss Americana”, Taylor Swift takes us through the ups and downs of her career and what led her to partisan political activism. The driving force of this change was her gender, and how she was treated by the media, public and others because of her gender. Political activism was never a destination…
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On Feminism
I am nine years old I don’t know much about the world, but I know I love to read The library becomes a safe space, A space for the inner workings of my brain to come alive I walk into the library and pick up a graphic novel on Elizabeth Cady Stanton My fourth…
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Latin Chivalry v. Music: What’s Right?
As far back as I can recall, my dad always opened and closed the passenger car door for my mom before getting in himself. Coming from a Colombian household, this type of behavior was routine and, most importantly, expected. Even when he couldn’t open the door, my dad would send me as a proxy to…
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The Trump Presidency: Through the Eyes of Monica Lewinsky
On January 21, 1998, the biggest scandal of the decade broke news. Allegations of sexual conduct between intern Monica Lewinsky and then President Bill Clinton destroyed her reputation while barely scratching his. In fact, Clinton’s approval ratings reached its highest point at 73% after his impeachment proceedings, and he finished his second term at a…
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8M: More than a Women’s March
On March 8th, women around the world participated in International Women’s Day (IWD). The day was first celebrated at the beginning of the 20th century as International Working Women’s Day, as evoked by International Socialist Women’s Conference in Copenhagen in 1910. In its early years, women who “celebrated” this day did so by marching, demanding…
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The Phenomena of Gender Reveal Parties: Moving Beyond the Bounds of Pink and Blue
A family waits expectantly as a knife is held over a supposedly unassuming cake. What secrets does the buttercream hold? What sweet confection will spill out from the inner depths of the layered dessert? But as everyone peers in to see what color emerges, blue or pink, a bigger question is at hand; will the…
