Why is UConn's Mascot a Rape Meme?
By Soraya L. Chemaly Two days ago, Carolyn Luby, an undergraduate at University of Connecticut published a remarkable open letter to the school’s president, Susan Herbst, in The Feminist Wire. In the...
View Article“We Ball Harder”: Talking About Sports, Race, Gender, and Pleasure
By Tamura A. Lomax, David J. Leonard, Darnell L. Moore, Heather Laine Talley, and Monica J. Casper A few months ago, at the exhilarating height of college basketball season, the university at which one...
View ArticleFeminists We Love: Michael Kimmel (Video)
Michael Kimmel, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University, is a nationally-recognized scholar and activist committed to the study of manhood and masculinity. His...
View ArticleOn Disability and Cartographies of Difference
By Wilfredo Gomez I recently returned to my alma mater to encounter a rather peculiar and interesting narrative about my legacy. While interacting with former teachers, classmates, and current...
View ArticleOn Michael Sam Coming Out
By Cheryl Cooky Take Me Out Nearly a year ago today, I was invited to deliver a lecture to the students at Wabash College (a small, all-male, liberal arts College in central Indiana) on the issue of...
View ArticleOp-Ed: The NFL’s Response to Violence Against Women: Why One Fan Won’t Watch...
By Eric C. Souza The message that the National Football League has chosen to send me as a fan, and my children by extension, is not one I am willing to welcome into my home. Its punishment of Ray...
View ArticleELEMENTARY FEMINISMS: Being a Feminist at Fourteen
By Olivia Emin I go to a school where the boys outnumber the girls. This isn’t a small difference; there are pretty much two and a half boys for every girl. I never noticed the difference until now....
View ArticleCOLLEGE FEMINISMS: Forum Submissions on Campus Violence, Resistance, and...
PLEASE SEND IN YOUR SUBMISSIONS!! TODAY: JUNE 1, 2015 Thank you to everyone who has submitted to the College Feminisms Forum! Please continue to share and submit!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “COLLECTIVE...
View ArticleCOLLEGE FEMINISMS: Everyday Athlete
By Mariah Conn Start workout. My shoe feels loose. Glance behind. This hill is too steep. Nailed it. Oh, the tunnel. Better take out one earbud. I’m glad there’s shade. Mile one. This song is too...
View ArticleHow Nike’s Neoliberal Feminism Came to Rule the Global South
By Maria Hengeveld The first time Nike tried to convince American consumers that it cared about women’s equality was in 1987, when the shoe giant aired a TV campaign in which the famous triathlete...
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