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March 24, 2011 | Julie Zeilinger |
Body image and body standards,
Disability,
Feminism,
LGBTQIA,
Media,
Race/Ethnicity
Body Image in the Media: Glee Gets It Right, But Are We Ready?
Every once in a while, usually when 30 Rock is a re-run, I'll flip over to the CW. And I kind of get the draw of the utterly escapist fantasies that shows like 90210 and Gossip Girl offer. Serena Van ...
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When You Lose Someone (From One Teen to Another)
It's 10:06 AM on a random Tuesday morning (I'm not a skipper, folks, my school is on Mid-Winter Break), but I got a weird impulse to write this post.
My dad passed away last month. Chances are some o...
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March 09, 2011 | Dina L |
Arts and culture,
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
LGBTQIA,
Media,
Race/Ethnicity
GaGa: The Image of a Pop-Star
I was lucky enough to recently see Lady Gaga in concert–it was fantastic. She was fantastic (her voice is really good), the show was fantastic, and the world that she created onstage was fantastic. If...
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From the Paris of the Middle East to Bacha Posh
Afghanistan has had a rough time in recent history. The sudden transformation from fashionable escape for the West to war-torn warlord-ruled landscape to complete Taliban control (and now it seems tha...
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Guy Friends and Double Standards
As a girl with several, older male friends I am constantly around sexism. I spend nearly all my free time with them as I don't see them at school. Their favourite name for me is 'woman' and the number...
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February 22, 2011 | Regina |
Arts and culture,
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
LGBTQIA,
Media,
Misogyny,
Politics,
Race/Ethnicity,
Religion
The Link Between Beauty, Privilege and the Media
We don’t live in a vacuum. Our ideas, our lexicon, and our beliefs are shaped by outside forces like society, culture, environment, and religion. Fields like sociology and anthropology prove that.
Wo...
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This Is What a Feminist Looks Like
In the first meeting of my Gender Theory class my professor asked the class if we were feminists. I think all but one hand (out of 8 students) was raised. I experienced a brief moment of shock and ple...
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Gay Slurs in Television
I would like to preface this entire post by mentioning that most actors who play high school students in our favorite dramas are really, really old. Though they have not yet succumbed to the allure of...
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Saturday Vids: In Honor of Christmas, Jews and Bill Nighy
Even though today is Christmas, I didn't commemorate Hanukkah so I'm just going to go ahead and honor all holiday festivities right here, right now.
"A Public Service Announcement not approved by AJW...
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Saturday Vids: Confessions of a Hipster
I love Confessions of a Hipster. I also like it when teen girls make super successful YouTube videos.
...
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Veganism, Dieting and Why I Felt Like I Had to Change
My sophomore year of high school, thinking I’d be healthier, skinnier, and for humane reasons, my parents coerced me into becoming vegan. I hardly ate - because of my dislike of beans and other vegan ...
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My First Heartbreak: How Feminism Got Me Through It
This past week my boyfriend dumped me. Now, under normal circumstances, recovery would have been simple. At first, I'd turn the radio randomly to any given pop song where a lyric about "looking into e...
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Finding What's Right for You
In the midst of all the drama about the media’s effect on the sanity and bodies of young women, it’s nice to hear that some people are doing things right. It’s even nicer when those people are my frie...
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"Body Image Disorder"
At some point in recent history the stance of “I Hate My Body” became a public statement encompassing an entire gender rather than a private thought held by few on particularly bad days. Somewhere alo...
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Caitlin Crosby
Caitlin Crosby is an artist who gives me hope for the pop music genre.
Rarely in pop music do you hear a young woman singing about body acceptance, but that's exactly what Caitlin Crosby sings about....
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Sexual Autonomy (A Request to Fellow Feminists)
Lately, I've been reading a lot- on the FBomb and elsewhere- about the "conflict" between promiscuity, "self-respect," and feminism. I won't pretend that it hasn't disturbed me. My first though is a...
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Saturday Vids: Confessions of a Hipster
We all know this person. Rock on to "xOphoeniXfeath3r" for making me laugh as much as this video did.
...
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My Feminist Rant
First off, I want to clearly state that I’m well informed about feminism and I associate myself with feminism, despite the fact that many things within the feminist movement bother me. For example, th...
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September 06, 2010 | Anonymous |
Feminism,
Violence against women
A Reason to Believe in Feminism
I have for you a tale of feminism in its physical manifestation.
It was only weeks ago that I, a nineteen-year-old girl, sat at a window seat on a bus swindling its way down a road in the city one ni...
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Banish Girl Hate Today
I’ll admit it: I used to be a hater. After I hit 13, for whatever reason, I started to really, really dislike other girls. I was constantly jealous of them, hated when they talked to my array of (of...
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Huge and Feminist Stereotypes
Yet again, the media continues to fail with another horribly unrealistic feminist character. I was interested in the new series "Huge" and how this show would portray body image issues. However, when ...
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Why Don't Teen Girls Identify as Feminists?
I’ll just get it out of the way: Barnard’s Young Women’s Leadership Institute was an amazing program, and one of the best experiences of my life. We had some really awesome speakers/workshops (includi...
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July 07, 2010 | Julie Zeilinger |
Body image and body standards,
Feminism,
Health,
International,
Media,
Misogyny
Circle Contact Lenses: The Terrifying Future of Beauty as We Know It
As Joan Jacobs, in her great book The Body Project illuminated, the idea of teen girls working to improve their bodies in a detached way – as if it were a project with perfection as its goal, rather t...
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Self Respect and Sexting: Take 2
While it may be true, especially publicly speaking, that "sexting" is a very negative thing for young women to do, I don't feel this is always the case. Even if it's not "true love" or if the coupl...
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June 24, 2010 | Emily V |
Feminism,
Online harassment
Self Respect and Sexting
Self Respect is a dying art. This thought was solidified when I heard the latest gossip in my school of the sex video going around of a fellow female student with two other guys. As we see a rise in "...