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...

“I’m go go baby, fresh oh baby, go go baby, uh oh baby, no no baby. Yeah yeah baby, now jiggle it baby, let me tickle it baby.” A man named Armando Perez, aka Pitbull, was likely paid somewhere in...

When we discuss equality, we have to remember to do so in its entirety. Usually, we talk about the equality we can measure in tangible goals. Repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? Done. Find the Defense of...

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...

Three years ago this week, news broke that Osama bin Laden had been killed, and the best night of college ensued. That night, I found myself in the middle a riot of the American spirit in Greek Town....

Human bodies are strange things. They’re the only medium we have of expressing thoughts into the physical world, and yet we sure do talk a lot of shit about them. I am confident that there are people...

Last month, during the Academy Awards, comedian Ellen DeGeneres took a selfie. Not a “first, let me take a selfie” type of selfie; no, DeGeneres took what has become known as a group selfie. The host...

When I first began this column over a year ago, style was left up to me. I remember having a conversation with my then-editor about which acronym we should use in my columns — LGBT or LGBTQ. At the...

As I’ve often commented on, seeing girls and women in positions of power, in popular media and in literature is really important. Every budding feminist needs her own set of feminist role models to help...

To anyone reading this who hasn’t attempted to earn a college degree in an age where your life’s worth is based on what you know, who you know, how little sleep you get at night, and a certificate...