Last week, the New York Daily News released some nude photos of Justin Bieber swimming while on…
Target Ditches Gender Labeling
As of August 2015, Target decided to get rid of unnecessary “gender labeling” on its products from selected departments…
What makes a man? His job? The way he acts as a human being? A lot of things shape how a boy grows into being a man in today’s world…
Two years ago, Kamala Khan became the first teenage Muslim Pakistani-American…
For over eighty years women had been trying and striving to become equal to men through the first wave, second wave, and…
There are several experiences in my life I know will exist within me until the day I die. Some good, some not so good… I will never forget the day I went paragliding — this past summer in San Diego. It was incredible.
In a world that is obsessed with normality and fitting into social standards it is inevitable to deny that gender is among one of the most disputable socially constructed issues. From the beginning of time it seems that society has done a hell of a job of fitting people into tightly knitted profiles of what…
Gender and sex has now become a blaming game as society continues to advance throughout the years. Women are ostracized for being born female, and males who do not fit the norm of being “male” are criticized for being feminine. “The term ‘female’ is derogatory not because it…
When you’re heartbroken, you’re most likely to turn on some songs from either Taylor Swift or Drake. In my opinion they…
Transgender Choosing Left or Right?
One of the scariest things a person can do in such a judgmental society is to truly be oneself in public. There is a…
Through the class readings such as Luisa Muraro’s “The Passion of Feminine Difference beyond Equality” and class…
Recently, my roomates and I started watching SuperNatural, a tv show that airs on The CW. The show starts…
We, especially those of us living in the most technologically and economically advanced nations of the world, like…
Growing up in a traditional Mexican family, I was brought up with the concept that the female needed to be take…
I have never been the ‘lady like’ type of woman. That is to say, that I have never had the urge to dress how ‘women are supposed to dress’. Since I was small, my mom would dress me…
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM), an entire month dedicated to support women affected by the disease. By…
Growing up with a brother only ten months younger than I, was very stressful. The way we were treated was very different from the…
Mother knows best! I think…
X & Y. These two letters aren’t like ying and yang, where they balance each other. They barely have any significance in terms of…
The realm of sports has long been dominated by men. Sundays are for football, October is for…
We are all trying to achieve equality, or at least that’s what most people tend to say or refer to in terms of what would make our habitat a better place. We all have a different notion of what that entails. Some of us say we need…
Growing up in my traditional African household with parents who had immigrated to the United States at least 20 years beforehand but still had much to learn was difficult to say the least. Chores are a norm and they are to be done regardless of an allowance or not (often not). As…
When it comes to society it seems there has been one level of “maleness”. You are either going to be a man or not a man. There…
You can’t go a day without seeing an ad. On your walk to school, drive to work, even while attempting to watch…