feminism

I can slay my own dragon/ I can dream my own dreams/ My knight in shining armor is me The Cheetah Girls brought diversity to the U.S. small screen, but what exactly did they break through? Before these girls took […]

The Cheetah Girls, a popular girl group made famous by Disney, took the world by storm with their messages of intersectional feminism and multi cultural families in the early 2000s. Marketed towards the young female population in the United States, […]

This photo reveals the pain born of domestic violence but also highlights how women stand strong despite such assaults.

How can beauty pageant contestants and feminists coexist? Beauty Pageants are both loved by participants and despised by some feminists. Many might call out a successful woman participating in a beauty contest for being a “bad feminist”; Miss Colombia 2018 […]

Feminism is deemed to be a bad word. Terms such as ‘feminazi’ are associated with feminism. Simply put, if you identify as a feminist, you run the risk of being judged, bullied, or not accepted. Merriam-Webster defines feminism as, “The […]

In my last article I talked about how my mother adapted to the intricate hierarchy of the Expat life, and her adjustments to becoming an expat wife. It was a struggle for her to adapt to the social hierarchy of […]

On Sept. 20, Emma Watson made a game-changing speech to the UN. In this speech, she introduced the HeForShe movement, which is a campaign to involve men and boys worldwide in the movement for gender equality. According to the HeforShe […]

As a millennial, my childhood caught the tail end of third wave feminism as I was being introduced to the internet. Growing up, I saw the internet change, from barbie.com, to myspace, to facebook, to twitter, it continued to morph […]