"Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance." — Kofi Annan

We stand together in solidarity with our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families - recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country.

“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.” Edwidge Danticat

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” Gloria Steinem

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away." Thoreau

“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.” ― Anaïs Nin

"Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." -Edward Said

An exploration of ongoing struggles

I have no idea what I am doing, and that's ok.

WGS 390: Internship in Women's and Gender Studies

Come inside & chat

Why tests are hurting our children

The Musings of a Literary Feminist

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou

Cant stop addicted to the scribble

"When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch." -Bette Davis

Postcolonial Literature

thinking + motherhood = feminist