Franchesca Ramsey: An Amazing Youtuber
By Matiara Huff Franchesca Ramsey (Chescaleigh on social media) is an amazing feminist Youtuber, and the host of MTV’s Decoded. Where she provides an intersectional feminist point of view on current...
View ArticleBra Sales Fall as More Women are Going Braless
By Thea Voutiritsas WireImage It seems as though more women are giving their bras a break. It’s not just red-carpet celebs this time ditching their bras for a plunging neckline. It’s women everywhere....
View ArticleEsperanza Spalding: Breaking One Boundary at a Time
By Logan Snook Bassist. Vocalist. Composer. Grammy Award winner (beating out Justin Bieber, I might add). Human rights activist. Esperanza Spalding has been taking names and defying odds for most of...
View ArticleBeyoncé Slays the Country Music Awards
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60aCpaG2S6E[/youtube] By: Korrien Hopkins A moment a silence for Beyoncé’s performance at the 2016 Country Music Awards… Beyoncé and the Dixie Chick’s...
View ArticleBeing Called White-Washed
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTPbrWsLUcg[/youtube] This video featuring Anna Akana, is a very good explanation of the difference between calling persons of color or POC white-washed and a...
View ArticleBlack Dolls Matter
By Korrien Hopkins Dolls play a pivotal role in the development of girls. I remember going to Toys R Us with my family to use the gift cards our uncle had given us for Christmas. I remember going...
View ArticleInsecure: Eight episodes of awkward TV gold
by Thea Voutiritsas Issa Rae in Insecure (2016)IMBD HBO original comedy series Insecure premiered on HBO Now and HBO Go in 2016, and has since won critical acclaim. A second season is in the works. The...
View ArticleChewing Gum: the Netflix gem you ought to be watching
The British television sitcom Chewing Gum is exploding right now. The show recently won the BAFTA for Best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme and Breakthrough talent for star and creator Michaela...
View ArticleIMDB Gets F-Rated
by Thea Voutiritsas By unbekanntAmazon.com, Inc. (http://www.imdb.com/) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsThis year, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), added the F-Rating classification to their...
View ArticleWoman with the Pencil, Not the Pencil Skirt
By: Caroline Turner Why do we notice women in the news for what they are wearing, and men in the news for what they are doing? Why are we more inclined to point out what a women has on than we are a...
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