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There were many unforgettable lines in Angela Davis’ keynote last week, but my mind keeps returning to one in particular, circling back and back like it’s stuck in the rinse cycle of a washing machine. I keep thinking about when she said,…

This week is Body Beautiful Week at St. Lawrence - a week of action intended to take a stand against our culture’s narrow definitions of beauty. This idea of body pride, of accepting parts of ourselves societal norms often tell us are…

By, Emma Hennessey We all have heard the most famous statistic about the wage gap: that women, on average, earn 79 cents for every dollar men make for the same work. This does not even account for the fact that an African-American woman…

By EMMA HENNESSEY COLUMNIST and SARAH HEATHERTON GUEST WRITER Last week, there was a front-page story on the Hill surrounding the discussion that erupted at that week’s Thelmo meeting when the bystander intervention group Stand By Me…

Photo via Wikipedia My parents met working as reporters at an NPR station, so in our home, it could always be assumed that one of two noises would be playing in the background: Ira Glass’ familiar nasal droning on our radio like an…

Photos via Slate (left) and Fandom (right) My younger sister solidified her place as the assertive sibling in our family the moment she professed she would not accept rides from me to school anymore until my car was kept to her standards…

One could go on for hours learning about the many different types of birth control, and each of their specific forms, from condoms and the pill, to IUDs, diaphragms, sponges, and sterilization. While learning about the many options…

Contraceptives. They are one of the most talked about thing on college campuses that are never “really” talked about in serious, factual discussion. It’s as if they are one of the last taboos from our impressionable preteen years.…