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The Way a Feminist Conference at Barnard Opened My Eyes
I recently participated in one of the most extraordinary conferences held at Barnard College, Activism & the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Scholarship and Feminism. I must say that I was a...
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Activism vs. Online Activism: Barnard Feminist Panel Raises Questions
Recently I attended a wonderful feminist conference Activism and the Academy at Barnard. At first I was excited by the free food, but my attention quickly turned to the intelligent and...
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Barnard Feminist Conference—Raising Pride While Raising Awareness
http://bcrw.barnard.edu/event/activism-and-the-academy/ This past Friday I got the pleasure of attending the BCRW Feminist Conference. It was a day of mixed emotions for me in a way that I never...
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Feminist Bloggers Take Action
On Friday September 23, 2011, I attended a conference at Barnard College on Manhattan’s Upper West Side with my fellow students enrolled in the feminism course at LREI with our teacher. The conference...
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Is There Enough Awareness About Feminism?
Did you know that between 2000 and 2011 Internet use increased by 480% around the world? Feminist bloggers are well aware of the fact that we are becoming more and more dependent on the Internet. Just...
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A Barnard Panel on Adult Education Educates a Teen
I was optimistic walking into the “Women’s Literature & Feminist Learning” panel at the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s conference “Activism and the Academy.” So far, I had seen a keynote by...
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Barnard Feminist Conference Encourages Unity
On Friday, September 23, I had the great privilege to attend a conference held at Barnard College entitled Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Scholarship and Feminism. Just as the...
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Lean Back: Unchaining Myself from White Feminism
Photo Source: Leanin.org Sheryl Sandberg’s 2013 book, Lean In, is the perfect archetype of mainstream white feminism. Lean In specifically focuses on how white women experience sexism, and sexism...
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Say her name. Recognize her work. Value her life.
“We struggle with black men against racism while also struggling with black men about sexism.” This line from the Combahee River Collective’s Black Feminist Statement has stayed with me since the first...
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Uncovering Healing Through Black/Brown Trans-Women’s Beauty
“I am not beautiful, I am baggage!” -Darielle Fernandez Last year, on a train ride home I wrote a piece about what I had internalized about myself. I wrote about hating my broad shoulders, my tall...
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