Daughter of the Patriarchy: Admissions
“When I was your age, my parents wouldn’t send me to college,” my mother was telling me. “I had to work my way through on my own. I don’t want you to have to stop. I will do everything I can to help you keep going to school. Your education is the most important thing to me.”
We stood in the kitchen, a printed letter lying on the counter between us. It was not good news.
I glanced up at my mother with a strained smile. I knew that if wishes could be cashed at the bank, I’d be writing my admissions essay to an ivy-coated castle. Instead, I was trying to find a way to pay the bill from my last semester of community college in time to register for fall classes. It was already August.
...read moreFrat at University of Vermont asks, “If you could rape anyone who would it be?”
Good question, guys. Very cool. Just normal questionnaire stuff, you know.
...read moreStudent Debt Story
Natalia writes about something too many of us live with: Being overburdened by student debt.
...read moreSchools Must Protect Students from Sexual Violence
This is a guest post by Katherine Greenier.
Sexual violence in schools and on campus is a pressing civil rights issue. When students suffer sexual assault and harassment, they are deprived of equal and free access to an education.
Teaching Feminism in High School: Moving from Theory to Action
By Ileana Jiménez, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine During a recent Twitter chat on #sheparty hosted by the Women’s Media Center, I tweeted: “How many feminists know edu hashtags and vice versa?” The point I wanted to get across is that many feminists today don’t know much about today’s education conversation and, in turn, [...]
...read more“The Percentages: A Biography of Class” by Sady Doyle
Probably, a lot of Feministe readers already read Tiger Beatdown. So maybe this is redundant, but I just had to boost the signal anyway. Sady Doyle’s recent post, The Percentages: A Biography of Class, is great. It’s a very intense storytime-type post, but also highly theoretical. Here’s a snip from the end, but please do [...]
...read moreLiberal, Sex-Positive Sex Education: What’s Missing
This was originally posted over at Clarisse’s personal blog in 2009. I am fortunate. I was born in the eighties and I received a great sex-positive upbringing. The public school I attended taught students how to use condoms; middle school health education included a section on sexually transmitted diseases. My parents didn’t throw their sexuality [...]
...read moreThe Tyranny of Education
Arielle is a college student living in Philadelphia.
In many ways, I am a model college student (never thought I’d say that!). So it was surprising, then, that I should find myself looking at the website of Goddard and other alternative college options, and wondering if my decision to go to college hadn’t been a mistake altogether.
Fat, Gender and Achievement
File this one under “Fat is a feminist issue“: MUCH of the debate about the nation’s obesity epidemic has focused, not surprisingly, on food: labeling requirements, taxes on sugary beverages and snacks, junk food advertisements aimed at children and the nutritional quality of school lunches. But obesity affects not only health but also economic outcomes: [...]
...read moreGuess who might be losing his job.
So tragic. (And no, it’s not because the PC Police got him. It’s because he was promoting racist opinions under the guise of scientific research, and compromising the academic credibility of LSE). Thanks, Xtina, for the update.
...read moreAt least the Tea Party has a bright future.
Fewer than half of American eighth graders knew the purpose of the Bill of Rights on the most recent national civics examination, and only one in 10 demonstrated acceptable knowledge of the checks and balances among the legislative, executive and judicial branches, according to test results released on Wednesday. At the same time, three-quarters of [...]
...read moreStep 1: Buy pearls. Step 2: Clutch.
Women are going to college and then not marrying plumbers. Holy crap, who are they going to marry then?! In a few weeks, the first of the 2011 college grads will toss their mortarboards in the air and bid adieu to campus life. A healthy majority of those hat-tossers — 57%, actually — will be [...]
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