By Izzy Labbe “This is not a contact sport; it shouldn’t be an issue. It wasn’t that they were afraid they were going to hurt or injure her, it’s that (they believe) a girl’s place is not on a field.” ~ Pamela Sultzbach Paige Sultzbach is a strong, athletic 15-year-old student at Mesa Prep, a…
By Izzy Labbe I am in a lover’s quarrel right now. Not with an actual person, but rather, one of my favorite magazines: Seventeen Magazine. Yeah, yeah, I know. This is the part where you all gasp and run away from me. Shock! Horror! Disaster! A feminist who loves Seventeen! Can it be so? Well…
By Izzy Labbe You’ve seen it all before: all the facebook pictures of girls taken in bathrooms, smooshing their lips together in the typical “duck-face”, bending over so far their cleavage is easily the focal point of the picture, or bending backwards so much that their bodies are contorted. Sure, we’ve all seen them. Some…
By Izzy Labbe I’m not going to lie. In fact, I’m going to be 100% truthful when I say the latest movie in the crazy-popular Twilight saga, “Breaking Dawn: Part One” is pretty far up there on the list of the most disturbing movies I have ever seen. Not only is it disgusting, graphic, scarring, and…
By Izzy Labbe Admit it: You’ve been there. You’re bored, and scrolling down your Facebook news feed, when you see another one of your friends’ post: “Like this status and I’ll give you a rate.” And your mouse hovers above the ‘Like’ button, and all you can do is stare and wonder. Wondering, what would my…