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Let’s Stop Body Shaming and Start Body Loving Ourselves

Image from Eachbodysready Facebook page If everyone in the world were a product, some people would sell out before others. This is a result of body shaming. The beautiful, the impressive, and the...

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Are You a Man?

Men are afraid of feminism because of the culture of hypermasculinity that we are raised in. I’ve seen others get so caught up in judging feminism that I realized that they don’t even know what it...

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Black Womanhood: A Self-Revelation

“Black women have a long tradition of bonding together. We have a distinct Black woman-identified folk culture based on our experiences as Black women in this society; symbols, language and modes of...

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How can we subvert the male gaze? Or… A love letter to the female ga(ys)ze.

Much of the media we consume today is presented through a single narrative: one of the heterosexual male. “The male gaze,” a term coined in Laura Mulvey’s 1975 essay titled “​​Visual Pleasure and...

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Eyeliner and Nail Polish: Are Straight Men Breaking Gender Norms?

With the rise of apps like TikTok, there has been a sudden shift in consciousness around gender expression. Increasingly, straight cisgender men are breaking away from gender roles, especially amongst...

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Women vs. Women: The Neverending Competition

In a world of hierarchy and patriarchy, men have discovered the perfect way to remain in control: competition. As humans, we crave power, and society teaches us that the way to achieve that power is...

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Crushes as Currency: When your Worth is Based on Attracting Men

From a young age, girls are socialized to have crushes on boys. We are constantly interrogated with questions asking, “Who do you like?” “Who do you think is cute?” and “Who do you want to marry?”  As...

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The Dangers of Sexist Social Media for Young Girls

With the current popularity of social media, more and more lives are becoming public information. Although social media is, in numerous ways, a great way to communicate, spread information, and more,...

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My Eating Disorder Journey: How the Male Gaze Led Me to Restriction

When you define feminism or any activism-related term, it is often conveyed as a strong and powerful depiction of the movement a group of people believes in. I define feminism as fighting for justice...

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Purged to Perfection: Why All Girls Need to Unleash the Power of the “Erotic”

I’ve always been seen as small. From the moment I was born, I was behind the curve. Every annual physical included my doctor presenting me with my chart, a little blue line lagging behind the norm. I...

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