If you make a racist remark, you’ll lose friends fast. But if you make a sexist remark — have you ever told someone they throw like a girl, or that they’re a sissy? — nobody thinks twice. Racism is prejudice against people because of their race. Sexism is prejudice against people because of their sex. …
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It Comes Double Standard
April 17th, 2009 by Julia Glantz
Your Name, Your Change
April 3rd, 2009 by Julia Glantz
Your signature can have a big impact. Use it wisely.
VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood ran a tabling campaign last semester for the Affordable Birth Control Act, which would lower the costs of birth control pills on campus. Because of a ridiculous law that lumped birth control in a category with narcotics, bulk prices for birth …
Know The History of Your Rights, or Your Rights are History
March 20th, 2009 by Julia Glantz
Do you know what year women got the right to vote? Can you remember what decision legalized birth control for single women? Can you name three feminists besides Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
We are in the middle of both Women’s History Month and Reproductive Justice Week. It is vital that everyone take this …
Female Beauty is On the Inside
February 27th, 2009 by Julia Glantz
The fantastic, funny, moving and socially active production of The Vagina Monologues will be performed here on Friday by some really outstanding women. Friday is V-Day, the annual day of awareness about violence against women.
A lot of people are turned off by the title of the show, and, as they read about it on Wikipedia, …
Planned Parenthood
February 13th, 2009 by Julianne Nigro
This week, VOX: Voices for Planned Parenthood is recognizing National Condom Week by distributing condom-grams to those who signed up at their table. In the spirit of all the other Valentine’s Day tables, VOX allowed people to send gifts to their friends and lovers by simply putting down their friends’ addresses and adding a memo. …
Obama’s Inauguration
January 30th, 2009 by Julianne Nigro
This week, Women’s Caucus co-sponsored a trip to Washington, D.C. with the Black Students Union. The trip’s mission was to build civic engagement at UR by bringing a diverse group of students to the National Mall for the historic inauguration of Barack Obama.
As an organizer of the trip, I frequently received questions about the trip’s …