Public Filter What #MeToo Doesn't Tell You Sexual assault and harassment are often talked about as isolated events, incidents with discrete timestamps marking a beginning and an end, a blip on the timeline of a woman’s
Public Filter The Good American This piece started out as a book review of What Happened, Hillary Clinton’s memoir of what it was like to be at the center of what I often hear
Public Filter Wonder(fully complicated) Woman The history of Wonder Woman is, in many ways, as complex as the history of American feminism. At least, that is the impression I was left with after reading Jill
Public Filter The Familiar Division Of Women In The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid’s Tale is set in Gilead, a society created in what used to be New England by a theocratic coup after attacks have eliminated the existing power structure
Public Filter Your new anti-choice, anti-science, and anti-woman HHS Amidst hazy threats of a government shutdown next September, the revival of the Hydra-like health care bill, confusing (at best) comments about Andrew Jackson and the Civil War, overtures to
Public Filter What Mike Pence and Bill O'Reilly Have in Common Last month’s Washington Post profile of Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, resurrected a comment the VP made to The Hill in 2002 in which he revealed
Public Filter Big Little Lies and the Secret World of Women (Some Spoilers) In high school, I refused to watch the hit TV series The O.C. Based in the titular Orange County, the show follows streetwise teenager Ryan Atwood as he navigates
Public Filter Why Representation Matters In an effort to consolidate support for the ill-fated American Health Care Act, Mike Pence met with the House Freedom Caucus, a coalition of conservative Republicans, to discuss changes to
Public Filter The Hypocrisy of the AHCA's Planned Parenthood Provision Since the unveiling of the American Health Care Act, Republicans’ long-promised plan to replace Obamacare, the bill has faced opposition from Democrats, interest groups, doctors’ and nurses’ groups, and even
Public Filter Emma Watson's Vanity Fair Photo and the Problem with Prescriptive Feminism If you had never heard of Emma Watson before now, here are some things you would learn about her by reading this month’s Vanity Fair profile of the actress:
Public Filter Milo's Noxious Doctrine On Monday, Simon & Schuster announced it was cancelling publication of Milo Yiannopoulus’s forthcoming book “Dangerous” after a recording emerged Sunday in which Yiannopoulus defended pedophilia. Yiannopoulus, a conservative
Public Filter Pop Music and the Public Woman When I was five years old, my older sister introduced me to Madonna. At first, I was a reluctant acolyte, having been conscripted into performing a choreographed dance to “Like
Public Filter Girls In Between In the first season of the HBO show Girls, Hannah Horvath, played by Lena Dunham (who also writes and directs the show), is in between. Working an unpaid internship in
Public Filter A Journal of the Women's March January 19 - Two days before the march My poster is ready. It is a bright neon green with ‘no freedom without choice’ on it in black block letters that
Public Filter Let's March To Be Heard Within the study of linguistic pragmatics, speech act theory is a theory of meaning that sees speech as “an action within the framework of social institutions and conventions.” In other
Public Filter Michelle Obama: Redefining Role Model As we near the end of Barack Obama’s presidency, another tenure is also coming to a close. After eight years, Americans will be saying goodbye to our self-described “mom
Public Filter The Paradoxical Princess Writing for the New York Times after news broke of Carrie Fisher’s death, A. O. Scott described her iconic role as Princess Leia as “...the foremother of Hermione Granger
Public Filter The Pro-Life Myth (Part 3) Read Part 1 and Part 2 in The Pro-Life Myth Series. Myths operate at the level of the subconscious. They are stories told over time, in bits and pieces, over
Public Filter The Pro-Life Myth (Part 2) Read Part 1 in The Pro-Life Myth Series here. The pro-life myth is a cultural myth. It’s a myth that implies a vague notion of a world in which
Public Filter The Pro-Life Myth (Part 1) After relocating to the United States from Finland and living in Florida for a stint, my family settled in Middle Georgia when I was eleven years old. There was an
Public Filter Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, A Love Story (Contains Spoilers) Netflix released the much awaited four-part Gilmore Girls revival the day after Thanksgiving. The revival represents a chance for creator Amy Sherman-Palladino to wrap up the series the way she
Public Filter What The Past Can Teach Us About How To Build The Future Since the election, many of us have been reflecting on its results and implications. For some of us, the acuteness of our disappointment is amplified by the prospect of sitting
Public Filter How Do We Move Forward? Like so many others, I am still reeling from the unanticipated and disappointing presidential election results. As a woman, as an immigrant, and as a sexual assault survivor, I feel
Public Filter What Witches Can Teach Us About Sisterhood According to a poll conducted by The National Retail Federation, adults spent over $1.5 billion on Halloween costumes this year. The most popular costume by far, worn by about
Public Filter Suffrage of a Nasty Woman In the spring of 2015, shortly before the presidential primaries really started picking up steam, I became a United States citizen after almost twenty years of residency. Shortly thereafter, I