As a woman, it has never been a rarity for me to have others dismiss my health concerns as a natural part of being a female and it’s clear I’m not the only one. This is a sentiment I constantly...
Content Warning: This article contains brief mentions of rape and sexual violence.
Women are taught that assertiveness is a negative aspect of their identity. We are taught that being courteous is...
I swore to myself at age 13 I would get a nose job when I turned 18. I would watch before-and-after nose job videos and envy the people who had the means to undergo such a procedure. The media I consumed...
Someone should fire me, and preferably a man.
I initially applied as a humor writer for The Wire with the aim of joining the feminist cause, challenging the long-running stereotype that women aren’t...
Meghan Kearney, autobiographer for one night only
• September 14, 2023
Feminists had been eagerly awaiting July 21, 2023, the day when Greta Gerwig would bestow the Barbie movie onto the world, giving us all the only tool necessary to put a complete end to misogyny. Yet...
Chloe Hansen, Opinion Columnist
• February 16, 2023
Advocacy or retraumatization? That’s the question I find myself asking whenever TikTok recommends me a video tagged “#corecore.” Corecore is a recent trend that takes a third person perspective...
Chloe Hansen, Opinion Columnist
• November 3, 2022
Catherine Earnshaw, Sylvia Plath, Wednesday Addams and Courtney Love. Weird girls. Insane. Bitches. The list goes on for miles. Women have been branded hysterical for feeling rage since the word "bitch"...
I'm Not A Girlboss; I'm Ontologically Evil - Kyle Mathy
"Girlboss," typically associated with the likes of Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Taylor Swift and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is normally about women...
In 1968, women flung girdles, Playboy magazines and bras into a trash can, symbolically freeing themselves from the instruments of their oppression. In the coming decades, scores of women declined to take...
Saturday marked the fourth annual Women’s March in Walla Walla: this is not a cause for celebration.
Each year, this Women’s March and others around the U.S. have become increasingly civil and tolerant....
Power and Privilege faces yet again the onslaught of white feminists as the Symposium’s date approaches. This problem, a yearly challenge for the planners of P&P, returns yet again in the form...
Whitman’s annual Women in Leadership Symposium will take on an expanded form this year. Centered around the theme “Identity and Leadership” the event will include a networking lunch and the opportunity...
