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(09/17/17 10:52pm)
When Houston flooded during Hurricane Harvey, there was strong media coverage and a strong national response. The National Guard and FEMA were active in Houston’s preparation and recovery.
(09/11/17 12:10am)
Let me begin by saying that my parents are still together and I do not know first hand the trauma a divorce can have on a family. That being said, I don’t think divorce should be as villainized in our society as it is. I know a lot of people whose divorced parents get along great, others whose divorced parents hate each other and some whose married parents hate each other. I would offer that, to many, divorce is the healthiest option in an unhealthy and unsustainable situation.
(09/04/17 9:21pm)
When I first came to the university just three short years ago, I had a full week of Welcome Week, as the name would imply. It gave me time to move in, make friends, wander around campus and learn how to feed myself. I loved having a few days of fun and activities in order to adjust to being a college student. I walked to all my classes, I ate at different dining halls, and I got to learn how to be a college student, away from my family and home.
(03/30/17 1:23am)
I would like to say that you would have to be living under a rock not to have noticed how drastically our climate is changing. But I can’t, because even things that live under rocks are being affected. Each year we break a new record for World’s Hottest Year, American islands are disappearing, and we are living in a mass extinction event greater than the one that killed the dinosaurs. Our situation is bleak, my fellow humans. I also would like to say that that makes me sad, but honestly I’m rooting for whatever will kill us all the fastest, and climate change seems like a solid bet.
(03/25/17 9:40pm)
The year 2016 brought us a lot of pain, a lot of good memes and a few Nazis. In the first "Captain America" movie, Steve Rogers rises to fame by punching Hitler in the face. And while some brave souls are still happily punching out Nazis, last year Marvel revealed that Captain America himself is a Hydra agent. What’s amazing about this is not the political hoopla of making an American hero a fascist enemy of the state; no, what’s amazing about this is that it is somehow easier for the American public to stomach a Nazi Captain America than a gay Captain America.
(03/02/17 2:04am)
Anyone who has taken a stroll through the Honors Residence hall has probably enjoyed the fabulous art hanging on the walls. The Artist in Residence program showcases art produced by Honors College students who are passionate about using visual media to tell their story. I was walking through the other day on my way to class, casually glancing around at all the new art that had just been hung. I saw a woman flipping me off from the wall, and I stopped in my tracks.
(02/15/17 3:08am)
Valentine’s Day is famous for two things: celebrating romance and making single people feel terrible about themselves. Though most people recognize at this point that Valentine’s Day is a more or less made-up holiday, used to celebrate love and spend lots of money, it still has a lot of power for those soft-hearted romantics out there. The only thing that makes Valentine’s Day more notable, it seems, than a candle-lit dinner is spending it alone.
(02/12/17 11:43pm)
The angel shot has been sweeping the feminist internet. If you haven’t heard of it, the Angel Shot is a drink recipe that began in St. Petersburg, Florida. But you won’t find it posted behind the bar or in a drink menu; you’ll find this recipe posted in the women’s restroom. If a woman is uncomfortable on a date, the first thing she’ll usually do is excuse herself to the bathroom, to panic-text her best friend or check to see if there are Ubers around. If you’re lucky, you’ll be in a bathroom in an establishment that sells angel shots. If you go to the bar and order and angel shot neat, then the bartender or other staff member will escort you to your car. If you order an angel shot over ice, the bartender will call you an Uber, Lyft or taxi. If you order an angel shot with lime, the bartender will call the police.
(01/30/17 2:22am)
This past Saturday, over 500,000 supporters in Washington, D.C., and several millions of women worldwide got outdoors and marched for women’s rights and other social issues. The turnout was so vast and powerful that it overwhelmed the established march walk, and many protesters were rerouted to other parts of the nation’s capital. Thousands of colorful (both chromatically and linguistically) signs flooded streets around the world, shouting responses to the events of Inauguration Day and the future they represent. However, much of the rhetoric used in this march caused some division between women, as many trans women felt alienated by the movement.
(01/22/17 11:54pm)
Freshman year I took an honors theology course entitled Money, Power, Greed and Theology. As one of the few fiscally conservative students, I made plenty of waves. As a socially liberal proponent of feminism and queerness, I think my classmates had quite a hard time sorting me into an appropriate box. There was a boy in that class, a biology student like myself, who seemed to have a hard time separating sociology and biology. Whenever we would discuss something about gender inequity or socioeconomic divides, he would always say, becoming famous for this line, “Well, it all comes down to biology.” At the time, I was mostly horrified that this biology student seemed to have such a poor grasp on the subject. Now, I understand it to be a running theme in mansplaining systematic sexism.
(01/08/17 11:36pm)
When my parents first married, they had two years of newlywed bliss, followed by four years in which they had three children. What is notable about these four years, in which the house was crawling with tiny, screaming babies, is that my dad was deployed for almost half of it. My mom was a “housewife” for 14 years before she finally went to work in a career she loved, and with my father's deployments, she did a fair amount of it by herself. However, when my dad retired, it only took three weeks of taking care of the house, raising our puppies and cooking dinner for him to begin to feel taken advantage of.
(12/02/16 5:46am)
French psychologist Alfred Binet is most well-known as the creator of the IQ test. However, this influential leader also coined the word fetishism, which is much more exciting. A fetish is a sexual attraction that is focused on an inanimate object, or particular part of the body. Foot and shoe fetishes are the most popularized, but nearly anything can be fetishized. Leather and fishnets are common clothing fetishes — but don’t worry if you like girls in leather or boys in fishnets because there’s a difference between an attraction and a fetish. For many fetishists, they are unable to achieve orgasm without the object of their fetish present.
(11/14/16 12:05am)
If you were lucky enough to go to a progressive enough school that taught contraceptives in your sexual education class, then you’ve probably rolled a condom onto a banana. If your parents were awkward and determined enough, then you were probably forced to demonstrate your condom-rolling expertise to them at one time or another. Bananas make a decent penile model, usually between six and eight inches in length and with a gentle curve, to prepare a hopeful condom-wielder for anything that might come his or her way. So what will happen when the common Cavendish banana goes extinct due to a fungal plague? What then will blushing high schoolers use to learn how to have sex safely? What fruit or vegetable out there does as good a job of being a phallic model as the Cavendish banana?
(11/11/16 12:10am)
By now, everyone has heard the allegations against Donald Trump. Rape, assault, groping and bragging about it to his friends. This is not to say that all of these allegations are true. I would not put it past the Democratic Party to have planted “victims” and created stories. But with the sheer number of women who have come forward, there is no possibility that they are all false. So, chances are, we’ve elected a rapist. Great job, America.
(10/30/16 3:18pm)
In a world of wild and interesting sexualities, gender identities and romantic predilections, stuffy conservative traditionalists can find a lot to hate. Whether it's people participating in workplace discrimination for newly married same-sex couples, people still calling Caitlyn Jenner by her dead name or religious sects pushing the heteronormative monogamist’s agenda, there are so many people out there who hate queerness. In this ever-growing world of discovery and hatefulness, the term “homophobia” no longer covers it all. American conservatives hate way more demographics than just gay people. So for those of you who hate all things LGBTQIA*, the word for you is queerphobic. Put that on your résumé.
(10/24/16 1:15am)
I spent several years of my childhood dancing. Jazz, ballet, hip-hop, tap and company performance: I spent hours a week for years dancing in front of mirrors and audiences. I can’t even count how many times I was told, “Remember to smile!” When I got my first job, even on bad days my manager would remind me to smile at the customers. You know when it’s not appropriate to tell someone to smile? Basically anytime a stranger decides I’d be prettier with a smile on my face.
(10/19/16 11:35pm)
Driving back from fall break with her parents' car loaded up with winter clothes, a friend of mine stashed a box of tampons behind her headrest in the back seat for safekeeping. She didn’t want the box to get crushed, needed them in an easy-to-reach location and thought the back window of the car was a perfectly suitable place. However, when her stepfather got out of the car to pump gas and caught sight of them, he became incredibly upset. He said that “no guy wants to see that,” and it was “disgusting to advertise that sort of thing.” He seemed completely panicked that this cardboard box filled with small cotton cloths was out where a poor, unsuspecting man might be subjected to viewing it. So what is it about feminine hygiene products that is so incredibly terrifying to men?
(10/15/16 12:19am)
One of my favorite cards to play in "Cards Against Humanity" is “sexual peeing.” Many people consider “sexual peeing” to be a complete oxymoron. There are couples who have been married for 50 years and still would never even consider peeing with the bathroom door open. It’s funny to listen to people say “ew” and “yuck” as that card is read laughingly, never considering that that card exists because some people out there are really into watersports.
(09/11/16 10:58pm)
Watching "Grey’s Anatomy" with my mother once, she said to me: “You know what I’ve always wondered about lesbians? How do they know when sex is over?”