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(05/01/17 12:08am)
Every May, American families celebrate moms and images of motherhood. Women are not only thanked for their sacrifices but expected to relinquish a life of independent personal meaning for the sake of their families.
(04/25/17 12:35am)
Instead of carrying out presidential tradition and attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, President Trump will be holding a post-campaign rally. He will be the first U.S. president to skip the dinner since Ronald Reagan and the first to skip without a substantiated reason for doing so.
(04/24/17 12:51am)
In a country with so many prevalent and dangerous misconceptions about mental health, it’s not surprising that Netflix’s new novel-to-television adaptation managed to throw them all together into one binge-worthy teen soap opera.
(04/17/17 12:34pm)
HBO released “Confirmation” one year ago Sunday. The show is the political biopic and thriller based on Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas before the Senate Judiciary Committee in late 1991.
(04/10/17 1:06am)
This week Ivanka Trump was given the title of assistant to the president. She will serve as an unpaid adviser to her father, maintaining all the benefits she was previously given such as security clearance and participation in diplomacy. But now, she will have to meet federal
ethics regulations.
(04/03/17 1:19am)
Before and after his death, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was criticized and lauded for his originalist legal philosophy.
(03/27/17 12:25am)
I grew up with a close sister, and the two of us would often spend as much time braiding each other’s hair as we would yanking it out of each other’s heads amidst sibling fights. Sometimes, to be especially annoying, we would play what I refer to as the blame-game.
(03/20/17 1:36am)
President Trump’s relationship with hip-hop through past decades has puzzled recent political commentators and passionate listeners. Rappers across the board laud the man for his material fame and fortune in spite of his business practices and personal prejudices. Lyrics invoke aspiration to be like him, live like him, make money like him.
(03/06/17 1:37am)
Accompanying unsolicited questions about lack of clothing and alcohol consumption, survivors of sexual assault and rape are often asked why they didn’t do anything to stop their
attacker.
(02/27/17 1:18am)
After spending only a short amount of time following the United States’ abortion debate, it’s easy to spot the supposed injuries that will grace a woman who chooses to abort a fetus.
(02/20/17 2:25am)
Though I enjoy making angry calls to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office with a morning cup of coffee, the glee from calling others out on their ideology doesn’t fix the issues in my own.
(02/13/17 2:22am)
Let’s talk about playing with fire, or, more specifically, human life.
(02/06/17 2:06am)
The stark difference in toy aisles for boys and girls makes today’s shoppers with souls get riled up. Stories from toy store sexism long ago serve as reminders for how far we’ve come and how much further we have to go.
(01/30/17 2:47am)
Cracked glass on my phone from politically induced rage has made reading Twitter impossible.
(01/23/17 1:47am)
The day after President Trump’s inauguration, millions of marchers for the Women’s March on Washington gathered in the capital and in many other cities around the world to create an atmosphere of solidarity against hatred.
(01/09/17 9:54pm)
If you plan to use any key words to discuss the prospect of Planned Parenthood defunding, limit yourself to heads, shoulders, knees and toes. For anti-choice legislators and supporters, this anatomical terminology is fine. But there are some words that are simply inexcusable.
(12/08/16 7:59pm)
In the 1980s, a campaign for international human rights sprouted from highlighted instances of domestic violence and sexual assault around the world.
(11/07/16 12:04am)
With Election Day looming, voter turnout has surged to unprecedented levels.
(09/28/16 10:56pm)
Bloomington’s chapter of Women Writing for (a) Change, one among a network of writing schools across the country, fosters creative voices among multiple generations of women in the community.
(09/25/16 10:59pm)
In the midst of the clash of capitalism, republicanism and socialism, mid-19th century France doesn’t look pretty.