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The Women’s Center was excited to see four of the Returning Adult Learners scholarship recipients graduate at the end of the Fall 2024 semester! Returning Adult Learners are identified as...
January 16, 2025
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9:15 AM
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” – T.S. Eliot It’s 2021, senior year of high...
January 4, 2025
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Because femininity is a concept, it can be constantly reshaped, redefined, and distorted based on the beliefs of the society it exists within, and social media works to heighten and mirror that....
December 21, 2024
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5:17 PM
What comes to mind when I think of an activist are images of figures like MLK Jr., Gandhi, Rosa Parks, and others who became symbols of resistance, fighting for civil rights, freedom, equality, or...
December 20, 2024
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The week the pandemic shut down all the schools, I went to the gynecologist. Over the past six months, I had been plagued by non-stop yeast infections, and I had tried every home remedy under the...
December 18, 2024
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Part One: A Strange and Friendless Road, For a Tomorrow Without Tears or, being a woman (mostly), queer, and autistic. Self-diagnosing, and the fear of an official medical stamp....
December 13, 2024
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June 13, 2024
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Positionality Statement: This blog post expresses my perception of activism as a queer woman of color. I implore readers to keep a sense of humanity and activity with them throughout daily...
May 20, 2024
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To quote myself from the start of my first semester here at UMBC, “I have somewhat of a unique position in that I often find myself standing in the middle of the line–I am biracial, bisexual,...
May 16, 2024
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Why is it that women are expected to take up as little space as possible? In elevators, we’re always in the corners making room for others. On crowded sidewalks, we’re the first to let others pass...
May 16, 2024
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2:36 PM