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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
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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4:25 PM
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
Image description: [Photo shows Rachael dressed in black attire, one of the Women’s Center interns, smiling in front of one of the UMBC buildings.] Content Note: This post is written by...
December 12, 2022
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4:44 PM
The following post was written by Ojuswani Phogat, a third-year student at UMBC. Positionality Statement: The letter below is a message from me to my immigrant parents. It is reflective of...
December 9, 2022
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1:50 PM
Image description: shows student, Jane, smiling in front of a UMBC building Positionality Statement: This post is written by Jane DeHitta, an adult learner in her final year at UMBC, who works...
November 5, 2021
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3:13 PM
This post is written by Amelia Meman, ’15, Assistant Director in the Women’s Center. I am trying to write this as plainly as I can because there are so many other words that are crowding...
June 4, 2020
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10:06 AM
Autumn is a junior Meyerhoff Scholar (M29), pursuing a BS in Chemistry and a BA in Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies dual degree, and currently a student intern at the Women’s Center....
March 26, 2020
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11:16 AM
Get ready for Critical Social Justice: Ignite with our What You Need to Know series. Written By Becca Mann, Mosaic Intern for Gender Equity, Social Justice, and Inclusion and Carlos Turcios,...
October 22, 2018
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8:59 AM
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Given all the race, national origin, class-based violence, anti-blackness and anti-immigrant rhetoric in the media and the subsequent backlash from white-identified people and groups, there is a...
March 13, 2018
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12:49 PM