• I have always been prochoice. But I had never really critically examined my own position on abortion until this past semester. I sometimes wondered if I, personally, would feel comfortable having an abortion if I were to get pregnant. I questioned the morality of abortion even as I supported a […]2January 22, 2013

    No Freedom without Reproductive Freedom

    I have always been prochoice. But I had never really critically examined my own position on abortion until this past semester. I sometimes wondered if I, personally, would feel comfortable having an abortion if I were to get pregnant. I questioned the morality of abortion even as I supported a […]

  • What a whirlwind semester this has been! I’m so thrilled I had the opportunity to take this course (Feminism, Health and New Media) with Professors Jessie Daniels and Morgane Richardson. It has honestly been one of the highlights of my collegiate career and I have learned so much–not only from […]0December 17, 2012

    I’ll be back…

    What a whirlwind semester this has been! I’m so thrilled I had the opportunity to take this course (Feminism, Health and New Media) with Professors Jessie Daniels and Morgane Richardson. It has honestly been one of the highlights of my collegiate career and I have learned so much–not only from […]

  • After watching The Education of Shelby Knox in class two weeks ago, I thought I would follow in some of my classmates footsteps and write about my own experiences of sexual health education–especially as it served to inspire the topic for my final paper. My first memory of official sexual education is […]1December 2, 2012

    The Education of Kaitlyn O’Hagan

    After watching The Education of Shelby Knox in class two weeks ago, I thought I would follow in some of my classmates footsteps and write about my own experiences of sexual health education–especially as it served to inspire the topic for my final paper. My first memory of official sexual education is […]

  • I am white and middle class, I have always had health insurance, been financially stable, never had to fear retaliation from family or friends for dating someone of a different race or gender. In other words, I am privlidged–something illustrated by the privlidge line we conducted in class last week. 7November 30, 2012

    Writing about Race

    I am white and middle class, I have always had health insurance, been financially stable, never had to fear retaliation from family or friends for dating someone of a different race or gender. In other words, I am privlidged–something illustrated by the privlidge line we conducted in class last week. 

  • As I boarded a Flatbush Ave-bound 2 train after a long day of school and studying, I was looking for nothing more than a peaceful ride. I have become quite used to panhandling subway performers, and as such, they don’t normally disrupt my ride. However, tonight was different. Three young […]1November 27, 2012

    Harassment or Performance Art? My train ride home

    As I boarded a Flatbush Ave-bound 2 train after a long day of school and studying, I was looking for nothing more than a peaceful ride. I have become quite used to panhandling subway performers, and as such, they don’t normally disrupt my ride. However, tonight was different. Three young […]

  •   Last weekend, I was at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference.  My awareness of how gendered the space at the conference was began before I even arrived in Boston. A week before the conference, all student attendees received an email from one of the student organizers; it included a gendered […]0November 23, 2012

    Navigating Gender-Exclusive Space

      Last weekend, I was at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference.  My awareness of how gendered the space at the conference was began before I even arrived in Boston. A week before the conference, all student attendees received an email from one of the student organizers; it included a gendered […]

Assigned Posts & Videos
  • You are a UN Humanitarian Aid worker who has recently been sent to Liberia to provide aid to women, men and children in surrounding IDP camps. Using the readings, notes from the guest lecture, and film, state what steps you think the UN must take to ensure the safety, health […]0December 8, 2012

    Cultural consciousness: the Key to Good Humanitarian Aid

    You are a UN Humanitarian Aid worker who has recently been sent to Liberia to provide aid to women, men and children in surrounding IDP camps. Using the readings, notes from the guest lecture, and film, state what steps you think the UN must take to ensure the safety, health […]

  • Produce a creative 1- 3min web video that challenges and/or demonstrates resistance towards some of the negative representations of women of color’s bodies online.1November 20, 2012

    Whitewashing in Fanart

    Produce a creative 1- 3min web video that challenges and/or demonstrates resistance towards some of the negative representations of women of color’s bodies online.

  • In their article Queer Blogging in Indian Digital Diasporas, authors Rahul Mitra and Radhika Gajjala carefully avoid falling into the trap of digital dualism, explicitly stating that “by blogging, [members of the Indian Queer community] have not somehow transported into a “virtual reality” that releases them from social, economic, political, material and discursive hierarchies.” However, what […]0November 15, 2012

    Gendered Spaces: Online and Off

    In their article Queer Blogging in Indian Digital Diasporas, authors Rahul Mitra and Radhika Gajjala carefully avoid falling into the trap of digital dualism, explicitly stating that “by blogging, [members of the Indian Queer community] have not somehow transported into a “virtual reality” that releases them from social, economic, political, material and discursive hierarchies.” However, what […]

  • “The long-term ineffectiveness of diets, particularly among those experiencing significant levels of obesity, is widely recognized, and many have argued that unsuccessful and repeated dieting is a source of psychological and physical harm.” (Throsby, see below for link). Yet Americans, especially women, are spending $30 billion annually on weight loss, and […]4October 29, 2012

    Fat Monster

    “The long-term ineffectiveness of diets, particularly among those experiencing significant levels of obesity, is widely recognized, and many have argued that unsuccessful and repeated dieting is a source of psychological and physical harm.” (Throsby, see below for link). Yet Americans, especially women, are spending $30 billion annually on weight loss, and […]

  • How has the identity of the self been transformed through the cultural economy of entertainment and advertising? Laurie Ouellette and James Hay’s article “Makeover television, governmentality and the good citizen” makes a persuasive arguement about the changing relationship between television and social welfare, saying “television is quite literally helping to produce a privatized system […]0October 21, 2012

    Entertainment and Identity Regulation

    How has the identity of the self been transformed through the cultural economy of entertainment and advertising? Laurie Ouellette and James Hay’s article “Makeover television, governmentality and the good citizen” makes a persuasive arguement about the changing relationship between television and social welfare, saying “television is quite literally helping to produce a privatized system […]

  • Like many women, I face street harassment on a daily basis. This video is not meant to dismiss the prevalence of street harassment, or discourage women from holla’ing back. Rather, I meant to highlight the state of almost-constant fear and anxiety that women live in because street harassment is an […]5October 8, 2012

    Hey you in the red pants (hollaback!)

    Like many women, I face street harassment on a daily basis. This video is not meant to dismiss the prevalence of street harassment, or discourage women from holla’ing back. Rather, I meant to highlight the state of almost-constant fear and anxiety that women live in because street harassment is an […]