The Great Gatsby: Are There Any Feminists in the Disillusioned Jazz Age?

For those who live under rocks or otherwise don’t care about pop culture, a much-anticipated big-screen Baz Luhrmann version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is being released in theaters Friday. English majors and fans of Leo DiCaprio (there’s … Read More

Girl Rising: The Story of Nine Women Fighting For the Right to Learn

A film that educates, inspires, moves, shocks and calls audiences to rise, is showing in select theaters around the United States. Girl Rising, produced by the 10X10 Campaign, shows us why educating young women is so important.

The film takes … Read More

Not So Fine: Why Chris Brown’s ‘Fine China’ Video is Problematic

Upstanding citizen and all-around good guy Chris Brown’s latest offering ‘Fine China’ is, of course, free from any form of sexism, racism or general stereotyping. There is just the right amount of pelvic thrusting, and the choreography is completely original … Read More

Can All of Us “Lean In”?

When I first read about Sheryl Sanderg’s book, Lean In, I was very curious. I finished graduate school a little less than a year ago, and I started my first job a few months ago, so I am always looking … Read More

You Don’t Need a S/O to be Happy (Especially One Who Writes About You!)

I was at my local Barnes & Noble, just shopping around and people watching, about a month ago. The book My Boyfriend Wrote A Book About Me: And Other Stories I Shouldn’t Share with Acquaintances, Coworkers, Taxi Drivers, Assistants, Job Interviewers, … Read More

Slut Shaming Gets Vicious in the Terrifyingly Relevant New Yeah Yeah Yeahs Video

After what’s seemed like a millennia (but really only 4 years), Yeah Yeah Yeahs fans finally got what they’ve been aching for –– Mosquito, the group’s soon-to-be-released-album, a batch of upcoming tour dates, and everyone’s favorite on-stage performer/rocker/screamer/goddess Karen O … Read More

For the Arts, By the Arts: Inside Beirut’s Haven for Artists

BEIRUT, Lebanon – It’s dark and quiet in this usually loud, lively bar in Gemmayzeh, one of Beirut’s artsy bohemian quarters. The bartenders in the back quietly chink together glasses as they mix patrons’ cocktails and pour Lebanon’s own brews. … Read More

Unpopular Opinion: I Don’t Like Jane Austen

Mark Twain said it best: “Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

Don’t get me wrong. It’s not like I hate Jane Austen personally, … Read More

“Lean In” Has Women Falling Over in Confusion

Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In has been described as “something of a feminist call-to-arms” and “sort of a feminist manifesto.” Both of those descriptions, the first taken from NPR, the second from the book itself, should, I think, inspire a certain … Read More

My Vagina’s Angry: Performing in The Vagina Monologues

“We were worried about vaginas.” 

Two weeks ago, I performed in my campus production of The Vagina Monologues. It was an incredible experience.

“My vagina’s angry. It is. It’s pissed off. My vagina’s furious and it needs to talk. It needs … Read More

50 Years After “The Feminine Mystique”: Where Are We Now?

50 years ago, The Feminine Mystique was published and Betty Friedan became a household name in the feminist movement. Widely hailed as the book that ushered in the ‘second-wave of feminism‘, The Feminine Mystique remains on bookshelves today. Although the book was … Read More

Illuminati Girl Gang: A Movement for Female Creativity

Here are some things I love: All girl groups, poetry, alternative publications, the Internet, collages, and girls spilling their guts. Illuminati Girl Gang gives me all of these things, plus the squeely, happy feeling when you find a space filled … Read More