by Culley Schultz Superheroes are the stuff of dreams. They have the power to do good and create a safer world. Despite never being a huge comic book fan in my childhood, I still saw the Spiderman movies and went to the theaters for other action-packed, superhero-centric films. In 2010, movies like “Scott Pilgrim vs.…
by Camilla Ostrow Just so every avid defender of Kanye West knows, the following content is in no way to be interpreted as offensive towards Kanye West. It is an art piece and shall be taken as such. Kanye West released the final version of his Monster video this month, parts of which had been…
by Maya Brown How many times have you looked through clothes at a store and asked yourself, “Who in their right mind would wear this?” I know I have. That is exactly what Rachel Kane does on her website www.wtforever21.com. She posts about clothing and apparel that the popular store Forever21 markets. However, what started…
by Ness Fraser I started out with a plan to write about the recent controversy caused by Rihanna’s S&M song and video, and how the world seems to be outraged that a woman is singing so frankly about sex. But the more I researched, the more I realized that the outrage surrounding Rihanna is only…
by Stephanie Cole In recent media, much has been made of the practice popularly known as “sexting.” The practice is notoriously difficult to define; basically it’s the sending of any manner of sexually suggestive material from a mobile phone. This could be anything from a flirtatious text message to a nude photo. The latter is…
by Stephanie Cole Let’s talk about sex. Actually, scratch that, let’s talk about something that has no connection to sex at all. Let’s talk about porn. In the conversation about sexism and the objectification of women in the media, it seems like pornography is the elephant in the room. We go on and on about…
by Diana Martinez My first encounter with the video game Grand Theft Auto took place in my middle school years. I went to a friend’s house and her younger brother of about 10-years old was playing the game in the basement. In the game, he was driving through the city picking up prostitutes and engaging…
by Stephanie Cole Every time we media-oriented feminists start to discuss advertising targeted towards children, or the concept of feminity as it is presented to young girls, many of us have the D-Word on the brain. Disney is the unspoken bad guy for many of us, the embodiment of everything that is wrong with how…