Calling for a Transnational Culture Shift on Street Harassment
By Brianna Suslovic It’s a strange feeling when you realize that your life is technically in the hands of a creepy cab driver who has been making passes at you […]
Category Archives: Language
Exclusion and Exotification on Grindr: What Racial Preferences Mean and Do
By Brianna Suslovic Modified from a version originally published on Medium.com as part of a project for AfAm 108x: Exploring Race and Technology in the Digital World. On its homepage, […]
In the Margins: A Perspective on Sexual Assault Conversations
The author has chosen to publish anonymously due to the sensitive nature of this piece. Author’s Note: 1. This article deals explicitly with issues of both penetrative and non-penetrative […]
On Language
Keith Grubb There are few words that feel right. “Queer,” “feminist”—two such words—help me understand how I exist, how I am, and, more importantly, how I want to be. “Fuck” […]
Reclaimed?
Cassandra Euphrat Weston I hate the word bitch. I mean, I want to hate it. I mean, I can’t get enough of it rocketing off my tongue. But only because […]
I Am Not My Genitalia
Anahvia Mewborn “You’re such a cunt.” Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines cunt as: “Usually obscene: the female genital organs; a woman”. Insulting someone by calling them a cunt, the female genital organs, […]
Reservations
We begin our series on language with Hayley C. Cuccinello‘s reflections on the word “hysterical.” What bothers me about the word hysteria is that it’s reserved for women. But it’s not […]
