WMC FBomb
Who Is A "Deserving" Victim?
My right to safety and bodily integrity were robbed the night I was drugged. I, as well as three other female students at my law school, were drugged at three different house parties. No one attempted...
WMC FBomb
The Case for a Gender Studies Requirement
Earlier this Fall, as leaves fell all over my college’s campus, something bubbled under the surface and all over Yik Yak, the popular anonymous Twitter-like app. It began as a series of “yaks” attacki...
WMC FBomb
Doing Feminism
I remember sitting in a circle of girls on the playground. One girl, I'll call her Sarah, showed us that she could fold her tongue. I didn’t know how to fold my tongue, but I lied and told m...
WMC FBomb
The Feminist Reflections of a Recent College Grad
While I have always felt passionate about advocating for equal rights and opportunities for all people, I didn’t find my feminism until my Junior year of college. After having several personal experie...
WMC FBomb
Lost Women of History: Maria Stewart, the First Black Feminist-Abolitionist in America
“Let our girls possess what amiable qualities of soul they may; let their characters be fair and spotless as innocence itself; let their natural taste and ingenuity be what they may; it is impossible...
WMC FBomb
On Growth Mindset: A Thank You Letter To The School That Got It Right
When Laurel School and I met for the first time, I was terrified. I was too shy to speak, too anxious to let go of my parents. I spent the summer before school began feeling worried. My parents, in tu...
WMC FBomb
Fraternities and Rape Culture
When my sister came home from college the first time, I had so many questions. How were the dorms? How were her friends? Had she met anybody special? She answered them all honestly and had mostly good...
WMC FBomb
December 09, 2014 | Carolina G |
Education,
Feminism,
Media,
Online harassment,
Violence against women
Laci Green: The Feminist Best Friend You've Always Wanted
If you haven't already heard of Laci Green, your life is about to change. The 25-year-old sex positivity educator and vlogger is the awesome, feminist big sister you’ve always wanted. And all of her c...
WMC FBomb
On Having Exclusively White, Male Professors
Academia was introduced to me as an essential part of life at a young age. I have been lucky enough to have been educated in environments in which curiosity was encouraged – a value that has shaped my...
WMC FBomb
Lost Women of History: Boudicca
Editor’s note: I have always been a strong proponent of making education about, celebration of, and respect for history a significant part of the feminist movement. The entire first chapter of A Littl...
WMC FBomb
What Are You Teaching Your Children?
Sometimes I walk into my high school and realize that the young boys and girls who surround me will grow up and have children of their own. Just like we learn from our parents, so will our future chil...
WMC FBomb
Facts Don't Lie: Teens Need Sex Ed and Access to Contraception
Access to education is a fundamental right. But are all American students learning everything they need to know? The use of abstinence-only education in schools is archaic and absurd, and yet it’s a c...
WMC FBomb
Why I Celebrated International Day of the Girl
I went to an all-girls’ school where I felt, first-hand, what it’s like to be nurtured, challenged, and encouraged. My thirteen years in a school that was deeply invested in girls armed me with resili...
WMC FBomb
October 12, 2014 | Martine K |
Education,
Feminism,
Girls,
International,
Politics,
Violence against women
Ileana Jiménez: Inspiring Feminism Locally and Globally
Social media as well as blogs and communities like the FBomb have played a key role for young people involved in the feminist movement by giving us a platform to share our thoughts and ideas and allow...
WMC Women Under Siege
Carry that weight: A student protest highlights countrywide campus failure to find justice for rape
Emma Sulkowicz, a senior visual arts major at Columbia University, has been the frontwoman for the school’s mishandling of sexual assault on campus ever since she released her name to the press last spring.
WMC FBomb
So She Did: The Female Mentor That Changed My Life
I always expected that I’d spend my last summer before starting college binge-watching TV, eating pizza, and dealing with anxiety about my freshman year. Instead, I ended up exploring my recent acqua...
WMC FBomb
September 02, 2014 | Chloe Hallinan |
Education,
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Violence against women
In Support of Self Defense Classes
Campus sexual assault is a harrowing issue: approximately one in five college women will experience attempted or completed rape while at school. Lawmakers of the American House and Senate have recentl...
WMC FBomb
Women in the Church
“The women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says.” -- 1 Corinthians 14:34, from the New American Standard B...
WMC FBomb
August 21, 2014 | Chloe P |
Education,
Feminism,
Gender-based violence,
Media,
Misogyny,
Violence against women
The Dangers of Internalized Misogyny
We need feminism now more than ever for many reasons, but rampant internalized misogyny -- which often goes unnoticed and, in some situations, is even understood as social norms – is as good a reason ...
WMC FBomb
Why I Need Feminism: Overcoming My Self-Loathing
As a kid I was very chubby and sturdy, but that all changed once puberty kicked in. People wondered if I went on a diet to lose weight when I was younger, but my eating habits hadn’t changed. This com...
WMC FBomb
August 14, 2014 | Ines R |
Body image and body standards,
Education,
Feminism,
Girls,
Media,
Science and tech
Stop Tweeting That and Start Living It
It is almost impossible to deny that millennials are obsessed with documenting everything. We think that something funny we see at Target, or a friend’s drunken rant at a party, or just a quick selfie...
WMC FBomb
Why The Sexism at Texas Boys State 2014 Is Not Okay
What do astronaut Neil Armstrong, President Bill Clinton, basketball star Michael Jordan, and singer Bon Jovi all have in common? When they were juniors in high school, they all attended a prestigious...
WMC FBomb
Why We Need Women's Studies Classes in High School
For years I, like most of my peers, always struggled to answer the question "why do we still need feminism?" But ever since I took a class about feminism my Junior year of high school, I can't and won...
WMC FBomb
Why Colleges Need To Fund Sexual Health Counseling
Like many (if not most) teens across the country, my high school health textbook had almost no practical sex ed information. It had a abstinence contract, pages and pages on why we should wait and one...
WMC FBomb
How I Lost My Voice
I went to a weird elementary school. It was a hybrid between co-educational and single sex classrooms. The idea was that as children grow older, the differences between the ways boys and girls learned...
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