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It’s New Year’s Eve, and tomorrow many of us will start making resolutions we will inevitably break. I don’t make resolutions; I’m also not into composing “Best of…” and “Worst of…” lists mostly because I don’t choose to dedicate my memory to cataloging such things. Since my blogging day has coincided with the event, however, […]

Okay, sometimes “things” happen in the world that just make me sigh. (Read: blackface cakes meant to represent female genital mutilation.) Over the past few months, there just seems to have been a torrent of misguided gaffes and controversies that continually reveal how much work still needs to be done in the world along the […]

At my high school, the newly formed “Young Feminists Society” has become the latest joke in the hallways. The level of social acceptance for sexism, girl hate, and anti feminism blows my mind. A freshman boy labeled it “Young Dyke’s Club.” A freshman had the nerve to cross a senior girl with a self-declared superiority […]

“I don’t want no feminine person defending me in the army” I try not to be desensitized by comments like this. I try to be as offended as I was the first time I encountered ignorance. But in reality, once you hear something for so long, it can never strike you in the same way […]