February 2016

The Vagina Monologues Tackle The Taboo

 

I’m not usually speechless. I’m the type of person who always has a comment or opinion. That’s part of why I wanted to write articles – my friends were tired of hearing me talk. Despite my tendency to never shut up, after attending the Vagina Monologues, I really did not know what to say.

Sammy Scheman
Pop Culture

Blue mountain foothills and Ghosts of Slave Women: A Conversation with UVA Alumna and Poet, Gail Wronsky

Please describe your involvement with the Women’s Center and Iris when you were a student.

Carly Gorelick
Advocacy

Shaking it up

Story by Sammy Scheman

Wellbeing

Why Millennial Women Side with Sanders

Story by Allyson Cartwright

Identity

It Doesn’t Matter If Barbie Is Fat Because No One Else Wants To Be

 

Story by Kendall Siewert

Wellbeing

picture of 9 people putting their hands together in the middle with the caption JOIN OUR TEAM

Top 5 Reasons to be a Women's Center Intern

 

Carly Gorelick
Advocacy

Why You Should Be Wearing a Hijab, According to Muslim Students at UVA

Story by Allyson Cartwright Photos courtesy of World Hijab Day at UVA

Advocacy

Authors in this Issue

Sammy Scheman
Carly Gorelick