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Photo taken by Kirsten Hemrich
April 25, 2018
As women, we have a lot of expectations to uphold. One is the expectation of being "feminine." Google defines femininity as "the quality of being female; womanliness."
That... doesn't tell me much. Based on that, every woman would be "feminine." But we know that's not true. There are...
Photo taken by Chandler Collins, originally published in the Cavalier Daily.
April 24, 2018
When I was in elementary school, I would anxiously wait for the letter that would decide my fate for the next 9 months: which teacher I would have. Throughout anything that could happen in a year, my teachers remained a constant and defining...
Art by Kirsten Hemrich
April 22, 2018
There are a only a few things I can think of that I absolutely hate: possums, green beans, waiting on someone who is late, and people I don’t know seeing me without makeup.
This last one is...
Art by Kirsten Hemrich
April 19, 2018
It happened again, after my friend and I had finished watching the latest Star Trek movie. I was complaining because the first Star Trek show aired in the ‘60s, and it feels as if the way women are portrayed on screen hasn’t come very far in that time...
Art by Kirsten Hemrich
April 09, 2018
Ah, love. A four-letter word to describe what may be the most complex thing that humans are fortunate enough to experience.
If you look up "love" on Google, the first definition you see is "an intense feeling of deep affection." Most of us would probably say that simple definiton of what...
Art by Kirsten Hemrich.
March 28, 2018
Often when we think of love, we think of a relationship between two people. Whether familial, platonic, or romantic, these relationships tend to define our sense of who we are. And when love relationships go awry, or become less than perfect, it can be...