And now, for an announcement: This weekend is the NYC 2014 Feminist Zine Fest! I am a proud planner and schemer (the Pressure Cooker on our team), and I would love to see y’all out there. Come out to the James Room (4th Floor, Barnard Hall) at Barnard College on 116th and Broadway between 1-6pm […]
These posts were written during the summer while I was in Bangladesh, in preparation for the upcoming academic year. Long story short: when I looked back at the archive, I didn’t have the desire or the time to put them up. But now, since I’m coming back to the blog, I decided that some of […]
I’ve always had in my heart a special spot for the domestic arts. I’ve tried my hand at most of what we would now call leisure activities – sewing, knitting, crafts, cooking, etc. Often these activities are ragged on as being somehow privileged and un-feminist. While I’ll own up to the fact that the ability […]
I didn’t want to get out of bed in the morning. I read part of my poetry assignment from the confines of a comforter cave, waiting for the last possible moment before I had to rise, dress myself, and get on the train to the Feminist Zine Fest. It wasn’t out of lack of excitement, […]
Last week, I talked about my position on skin-lightening creams. Even as I wrote that post, I was bursting with contradictions. Some include: Is it a woman’s right to do that to her body?*Are people using these products uninformed about the consequences and the societal expectations informing their choices? If not, what makes them choose […]
This week, I read Colonize This!, a book of essays by women of color about their experiences finding – and molding – feminism. I read this book (394 pages) within four days – not just because the library due date was coming up, but because I was absorbed in the stories of these amazing women […]
As part of my Well Women duties for next year, I am duty-bound to read a book from our library – you can imagine how giddy I was to receive this assignment. It’s like summer reading, but revamped to suit my feminist and inspirational needs. In keeping with these themes, the first of two books […]
Alright, I know that I said that regular posting would resume Friday, but I didn’t account for one major thing: sleep. Upon arriving home, I attempted to stay awake, but instead collapsed into an earth-shattering slumber, not to be awoken unless food was available. So, this post that was supposed to be put up Friday […]
Last week, I had the privilege of attending two very different shows on the same day – a Snoop Dogg concert and The Taming of the Shrew. They were both offered at the Columbia campus and I’m sure they’ve already been talked about to death by our students, but I wanted to add my voice […]
I haven’t gotten very involved with political activism since I’ve been at Barnard. I had thought that I would be more inclined to it, having been to a fair number of marches and canvassing missions in my high school years, but my interests have been so all over the map that I haven’t had the […]