One of my favorite series of books is the Delirium series by Lauren Oliver. It’s about a dystopian society in Portland, Maine where love is considered a disease and everyone gets a procedure at age 18 that will make them…

How often are women discouraged from sounding angry or overly opinionated, either in literature or daily life? What percentage of women, from different age brackets, believe that being angry and speaking out about something hurts them in the long run?…

I once believed that writing off opinionated women as being belligerent and not worth listening to was something of a modern time period. Recently I’ve started thinking about how long women have been conditioned to be soft and easily swayed. It…

I first discovered Destiny Frasqueri, better known as Princess Nokia, in a seminar about intersectional feminism in the media. At the time, I didn’t know the part she would play in the undertaking of how I would process my own…

I will most likely start writing my project in my room, a place where I feel the safest and creative. In many ways, my room is a reflection of who I am. I’ve put awards and art up on my…

What event or memory do you still want an apology for? I’d like to apologize to myself for the pain I’ve caused myself trying to resuscitate dead relationships, whether they be romantic or friendly. There was a specific point in…

The essay that I’ve decided to focus on is my final essay for a gender studies seminar that I took during the spring semester of freshman year. I used three different female R&B/Hip hop artists as examples of the sexism…