There are always two sides to an argument. The good and the bad. The right and the wrong. The compassionate and the unsympathetic. The fight for equality in the LGBTQIA+ community is no different. At...

They went up again, and again they will smother us. Congress voted to increase federal student loan interest rates, and while it is a mere 0.8 percent hike, the problem lays not in the number, but the...

We live in a country where we have the freedom of opinion. As much as I love being a free person with rights, some people’s opinions make me wish we lived in a country where if anything ridiculously...

I can see your eyes rolling already, people. And I can hear you, too. _“A sex column in The Maneater?”_ You’re groaning, letting your cursor veer drunkenly off toward Facebook or your kitten GIF...

With Summer Welcome in full swing and the fall semester fast approaching, I can’t help but remember my first encounters with Mizzou. I woke up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for Summer Welcome, met my...

Rape. Sexual assault. They are words with blurred meanings. They are misconstrued by lingering traditional reactions and fear. They were also the cover story of the May 26 edition of TIME magazine. In...

It ends in a bar. Shakespeare’s, to be precise. Blue Moon is in the glasses. We have jobs. We’re going to graduate. Our time here is over. It was always going to end in a bar, somewhere in the world....

One of the regrets I have about last week’s column on [Cliven Bundy, Donald Sterling and affirmative action](https://www.themaneater.com/stories/2014/4/29/getting-away-racism-must-stop/) was that I failed...

After a semester of writing about feminism, I’ve come to my final installment in this series of columns. I’ve had a lot of fun exploring the different aspects of feminism that I feel are important,...

I began this column in January of last year without a clue what I was doing. I had no experience writing about LGBTQ issues — heck, I wasn't even out yet. All I knew was that this was something I wanted...

If you’ve been reading my column this semester, you might think I’ve known about this feminism stuff a long time. I like to think I do a good job of making it seem as though I’ve been shouting “down...

What a week this has been for black people. Last Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-2 decision, upheld a Michigan ban on affirmative action in higher education. The court ruled voters can ban affirmative...