Tag Archives: academia
Balancing Activism and Academics
Being a college activist is hard. Whether you are fighting for queer equality, gender and sex equality or inclusive sexual assault policies, it is very hard. I was moved to write this post after realizing that I oftentimes feel so busy that I don’t get to write as many blog posts as I’d like to [...]
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Not Your Typical Lecture!
In the cold, West Michigan winter of 2009, the Women and Gender Studies program at Grand Valley State University introduced its students to the wonderful and intriguing world of Triota. Triota, also known as Iota Iota Iota (try saying that three times fast!) is the Women and Gender Studies National Honors Society that offers students [...]
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Correcting the issue of college sexual harassment
I’ve been reading a lot in these last weeks before school starts, a kind of last-ditch attempt to inhale as many novels as possible before I go plummeting back into the world of academic criticism. But the last two books that I read were not pure escapism; instead of distracting me from the fact that [...]
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*The Academic Feminist: Using the Past to Reimagine the Present with Imani Perry