Food is a clear representation of the economic extremes in the U.S. today. Food insecure families eat high carb, sodium rich fatty foods that are cheap and fill them up quickly while the wealthiest families in America eat berries all year long from grocery stores like Whole Foods and high-end local markets. What people eat for lunch, what their favorite foods are, and what they … Continue reading You Are What You Eat
At the Claremont University Consortium in Southern California, male students playing drinking games take up a lot of space. Continue reading Hypermasculinity on the Harvey Mudd Field
The other day, I had a conversation with my female classmates about the attitudes and expectations that surround makeup at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. We perceive students on our campus to wear less makeup than women at the other Claremont Colleges. I had always felt this was part of Pitzer’s “natural” aesthetic and stereotypically “hippie” student body, but perhaps it goes deeper than that. … Continue reading Not So Natural
Did you know I moderated a panel at San Diego Comic-Con International 2018? With sci-fi comes science, hence Comic-Con invites local organizations, including the Science Center, to host panels. For six years, I was a member of the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center’s program Better Education for Women in Science and Engineering (BE WiSE). They connect girls in seventh through twelfth grade with opportunities to … Continue reading Badass Female Scientists in the Lab and On the Screen
Seriously? He just said that? I’m gonna copy strike this guy. Just for that word, gonna copy strike him. Yo! Can we copy strike PewDiePie’s latest video, like, right now? He called us ‘Twitch thots.’ Alinity Natalia Mogollon (a.k.a. Alinity) isn’t the first female streamer to be called a ‘Twitch thot’ and she won’t be the last, but she blew up gamer news feeds last … Continue reading Twitch Thot or Not
I remember a conversation between the producer and his executive assistant in which they were deliberating over what categories there should be for the awards. It started getting contentious when they discussed whether there should be an award for Fan Favorite Gamer/Streamer or separate awards for male and female gamers/streamers. The executive assistant was trying to argue that other award shows are trying to move … Continue reading Must We Continue to Gender Awards?
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