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Sex Will Be Good Again
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 · 12:17 PM
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The Future of (UMBC’s) Neurodiversity
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 · 4:25 PM
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“The Lone Soldier”—Being the Only Advocate in the Room
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 · 2:58 PM
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External Validation as a Woman of Color
By Carrington Cline Positionality Statement: This post is written by Carrington Cline, a junior and student staff intern at the Women’s Center. This blog post articulates my...
January 17, 2024 · 1:22 PM
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Cancel Culture Anxiety
By Ash Acuña When I first joined the team at the Women’s Center, one of the very first things we covered were Brave Space guidelines. The three core tenets of Brave Spaces—challenge...
January 16, 2024 · 10:00 AM
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Burnt out? Me too.
Amelia Meman, GWST ’15, is the Assistant Director of the Women’s Center. Amelia uses they/them and she/her pronouns. Burnt out? Me too. This is not a new feeling for me. I have gotten...
November 4, 2020 · 2:46 PM
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‘Pandemic: New Horizons’ or How Animal Crossing and Other Games Offer Comfort in Chaos
Kaitlyn is a junior Social Work major and is a student staff member at the Women’s Center. Are you feeling isolated? Lonely? Lost in a chaotic world that doesn’t make sense anymore? Me...
May 11, 2020 · 2:34 PM
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Nonbinary in the Classroom
This post is written by Sam Hertl (they/them pronouns), a social work intern completing their field placement in the Women’s Center. *Trigger warning* There are heavy topics mentioned such as...
November 5, 2019 · 12:09 PM
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Self Care: An Activists Survival Guide
Alexia Petasis is an INDS intern on the Women’s Center student staff team. Alexia studies social justice and dance. In the following blog post, she runs through a list of crucial self-care...
November 19, 2018 · 3:17 PM
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Survivorship Looks Different in the Asian American Community
  Samiksha Manjani is a Student Staff member at UMBC’s Women’s Center. She is a Political Science and Sociology double-major and is currently a co-facilitator of the Women’s Center’s discussion...
November 1, 2018 · 1:25 PM
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