Gender is something that everyone experiences, even if everyone is at a different point on the spectrum. From a young age, many children are taught the gender binary in nonexplicit ways. My brother and I had very different childhoods based on our genders. My brother grew up playing with blocks and learning about planes andContinue reading “Strong, Independent, but Certainly not a Woman: How Peers Disrupt and Maintain the Gender Binary”
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The Power of Art: Oneness in Trauma
By Taggert Smith Heather Raffo’s 9 Parts of Desire is a brilliant one-woman play, in which Raffo portrays nine different Iraqi women she’s interviewed in an interwoven series of scenes. While initially seeming an odd choice, it is through this form that the play develops one of its core themes–the ability of the artist toContinue reading “The Power of Art: Oneness in Trauma”
Intersectionality In Giovanni’s Room
By Hannah Sweet While James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room is a story that follows a white queer man, race is a dominant force that is as central to Baldwin’s narrative as sexuality. In Giovanni’s Room homosexuality becomes connected to blackness in a way that heterosexuality is connected to whiteness. Both are identities that lay outside ofContinue reading “Intersectionality In Giovanni’s Room”
The Visual Delight of Poetry
By Nora Cornell • December 1, 202 Danez Smith is a poet who understands aesthetics. All poets do, on some level –poetry is built on descriptions and images, using “created beauty” to translate ideas. But Smith takes it to a new level, especially in their written work. Poems in both Homie and Don’t Call UsContinue reading “The Visual Delight of Poetry”
Invention and Sorrow: the role of literature in times of disconnection.
By Nora Cornell • 8 November 2020 “What I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, … was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected” (90). This line, a near-throwaway about some American tourists,Continue reading “Invention and Sorrow: the role of literature in times of disconnection.”
The Societal Problems That Sit On The Back Burner: Prison Funding and Reform
by: Ryan Ressemann Angela Y. Davis’s speech delivered to the Center for the Study of Race, “Feminism and Abolition: Theories and Practices for the Twenty-First Century,” delves into a topic often put on the back burner of mainstream societal topics. Davis highlights how penitentiaries operate often emulate the profound disparities between men and women inContinue reading “The Societal Problems That Sit On The Back Burner: Prison Funding and Reform”
Segregation vs Assimilation: Two Sides of a Bad Coin
by: Anika Hahn In the short story “My Son the Fanatic” by Hanif Kureishi, part of the family assimilates and another part overly separates, depriving the London community of diversity and evolution of culture. Parvez and his wife are from Lahore, a city in Pakistan, meaning that the family has a darker complexion than theContinue reading “Segregation vs Assimilation: Two Sides of a Bad Coin”
Transphobia Within the US Prison System: Recent California Law Requires the State’s Prisons to House Inmates by Gender Identity
by: Georgia Pettygrove On Saturday, September 26, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring California prisons to house transgender inmates in prisons based on their gender identity. Over the last few years, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York City, and Massachusetts have passed similar laws, which take the much-needed steps to reform the UnitedContinue reading “Transphobia Within the US Prison System: Recent California Law Requires the State’s Prisons to House Inmates by Gender Identity”
Using the Lens of Injustice to See Greater Systemic Issues
by: Brooke Lee How do the ways in which prisons are run reflect the gender inequalities in the world we live in right now? Angela Y. Davis goes into extreme depth about the flaws in the United State’s prison system and how feminism has served as a tool to be able to become aware ofContinue reading “Using the Lens of Injustice to See Greater Systemic Issues”
Why is Lemonade Yellow?
By Hannah Sweet Beyoncé’s video album Lemonade is filled with dozens of visually stunning moments. Yet, the image of Beyoncé in her flowing yellow dress, pushing open a set of golden doors is what I believe to be one of the most powerful images throughout the album. The contrast between the beginning of “Hold Up”Continue reading “Why is Lemonade Yellow?”
Constructions of Gender in Literature 