Rachel Cortez is a Latinx Social Relations and Policy student at MSU with a concentration in Women's and Gender Studies. When not obsessing over recent Supreme Court decisions gone wrong, she is writing the next great paper challenging gender binaries. In the future she aspires to be involved in a non-profit combatting sexual violence against women, no matter where that takes her.
With our modern advancements in technology and medicine, you'd think people would stop using this medieval way of measuring a patriarchal social construct— yet, sadly, stupidity persists among our population, but anyway… let's talk about virginity and its misogynistic roots.
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Today we are talking about one of the United States oldest remaining colonies.
For many non-Latinx people, words such as Latinx and Hispanic are interchangable. But before we open up that can of worms of straight-up wrong, let’s deconstruct the difference between Latino, Latina and LatinX.
A lot of these dress codes that say they promote professionalism actually have deep roots within systems of oppression. If I reflect on professionalism long enough, I am convinced it was created to enable colonizers to hold power over people who have marginalized identities.
This is a queer Black man coming out during his ride coasting untouched at #1 on the charts. Don’t let Lil Nas X's humility fool you— this is monumental.
Intersectionality has somehow transformed into some game about how everyone has intersections and we need to include everybody within our social movements for equality, even if they have racist, homophobic, and/or sexist ways of knowing that endanger and hurt us and our communities. This imagining of intersectionality is the exact opposite of what Dr. Crenshaw explains in her work.
This framework of violent anti-LGBTQ and blatant transphobic action against LGBTQ Latinx victims can help us understand the journey to the United States that for many LGBTQ Latinx is deemed necessary for survival. Perhaps the group with the least media coverage, trans Latinx, endure some of the harshest conditions within U.S. detention centers.
Perhaps a less discussed topic is how “the Cheetah Girls” movie came from a 16-novel series by author Deborah Gregory. In the novels, the Cheetah Girls are made up of five black girls.
Name: China Gross Year: Junior Major: Social Relations & Policy; English Minors: African-American and African Studies Hometown: Detroit, MI
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As the plot line within "Roma" unfolds, so do the subtle hints about the socio-political backdrop of Mexico City...
It was my freshman year in college. I had just gotten to one of my first James Madison classes early; I sat in the corner with my half-used...
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I challenge everyone to do something a little different this year: put your money where your mouth is.
Trigger Warning: domestic violence abuse. I was sitting in a coffee shop on Grand River at 8pm, incessantly blaring study playlists on...
"The assault of Jussie Smollett started an entire conversation around how blackness and queerness are intersecting identities that harbor specific struggles within different spaces."
