10 Commandments of Feminist Serving
Sometimes, being a woman in the Service industry is hard. Sometimes, being an opinionated feminist in the Service industry is even harder. Here are some suggestions when you have a sneaking suspicion...
View ArticleAziz Ansari’s Got Women’s Backs: Using Comedy to Call out Sexism
Fans attending Saturday’s Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival in Hartford most likely had similar sets of expectations for the evening, looking forward to the seasoned consistency of headliners Louis...
View ArticleThe Gaping Hole that is ‘Female Friendly’ Porn
When I was about eight, one of my neighborhood friends typed “sex.com” into Internet Explorer. We were at my house, and true to my nature, I knew it was the wrong thing and therefore wasn’t even...
View Article“The Girl Who Masturbates,” Or, How Everyone Knows My Name, And It’s Only The...
The author of this article is 18 years old and is thus legally allowed to talk about herself masturbating in the continental United States. It is once again that time of year where returning college...
View ArticleLesson Learned: College Friends vs. Work Friends
During freshman year, I became very good friends with my roommates. We were such good friends, in fact, that we remained roommates throughout our undergraduate years. Our friendship blossomed because...
View ArticleThe Monologue Adventures
I peek out from the side stage door and watch people filter in. There’s nothing like the energy emanating from an audience, especially on the last night of a performance. I am particularly nervous...
View ArticleWhite Feminism: Is ‘Leaning In’ for all women?
From the ‘Lean In’ comments forcing comedian Jessica Williams to replace Jon Stewart on the Daily Show, to Patricia Arquette’s tone-deaf comments on how everyone (men, gays, people of color) needs to...
View ArticleThe Importance of Realistic Female TV Characters
xoJane recently published an article titled Hey Broad City, A Woman Doesn’t Have To Be A Hot Mess To Be Funny. It was labeled as an “unpopular opinion,” and rightfully so. In the article, Emily...
View ArticleSplit The Bill Fairly – Using Affirmative Fractions
A new app called Equipay that was recently presented at a Comedy Hack Day in San Francisco promises to help you fairly split the bill when you’re out with friends— using gender and racial income...
View ArticlePrevenge: Murder, Mayhem, Motherhood
MILD SPOILERS AHEAD A slasher film about a pregnant woman committing murder with a kitchen knife sounds like some weird version of Mad Libs, and not necessarily a watchable movie. Nevertheless, writer,...
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