A [Love] Letter to You, to Us
Dear Youth, Media & Educational Justice Fam, I’m not sure where to begin, tonight rendered me speechless. After leaving class, I walked to the subway in a daze and as soon as I… Continue reading
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Reflections on a Visit to Family Court
This year, I’m taking a course called “Youth, Media and Educational Justice” (YMEJ), description is below. The course is taught by a teaching team consisting of my advisor and mentor, Dr. Lalitha Vasudevan, another mentor… Continue reading
Celebrating a Small “Victory” in the Wake of Cultural Mis-Appropriations at the VMAs
Just when we thought that Miley Cyrus and the overtly racist bubble she’s been bouncing around in for the past few months might soon float into oblivion (or popular culture purgatory) as summer… Continue reading
Becoming Hip-Hop: Finding My Place in a Culture, Movement, and Pedagogy
In January I wrote a post, My Semester in Review: The People & Things That Have Inspired Me, reflecting on my fall semester, a series of four months full of experiences that have… Continue reading
A Millennial on “Millennials”: The Complicated Relationship I Have With My Own Generation
Last month, TIME Magazine’s cover story was about the Millennial generation, also known as Generation Y, those born between 1980-2000. The title of the article reads: Millennials are a generation mostly of teens and 20-somethings known… Continue reading
I’m Not Laughing: A Response to Rebecca Martinson’s E-mail to her Delta Gamma “Sisters”
Yesterday afternoon Gawker posted a story entitled, “The Most Deranged Sorority Girl Email You Will Ever Read” (full text of the letter is posted below). The gist: a member on the executive board of… Continue reading
The Anger, Pleasure & Sheer Guilt of Sunday Nights at 9:00, A Semi-Auto-Ethnographic Analysis of HBO’s “Girls”
This past weekend I attended the Central Pennsylvania Consortium’s Annual Women’s Studies Conference. I not only met some amazing undergraduate Women’s & Gender Studies majors from Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, Gettysburg, and Bucknell;… Continue reading
What Still Remains Left Unsaid about “Being White in Philly”: An Open Letter to Robert Huber
So……the above image is the cover of the most recent edition of Philadelphia Magazine. An aesthetically bold cover–the juxtaposition of colors absolutely catches your eye. And that most likely happens before you even read the… Continue reading
What I Missed While Multitasking During the Oscars…
Last night, about an hour and a half into the Oscars, I received a text from my boyfriend asking how it was possible that I wasn’t all over Twitter and Facebook voicing my… Continue reading
I hate to break it to you, but…Black History Month is just not cutting it…
Black History Month 2013 kicked off last Friday, February 1. In elementary school, this was one of my favorite parts of the year and curriculum. Thinking back, I can trace the roots of… Continue reading