By, Abigail Costigan Angela Davis glided onto the stage of the packed auditorium with an easy smile on her face. In our cultural collective memory, we know her as a hero of the Civil Rights Movement, a member of the FBI’s top ten Most…

This week is Body Beautiful Week at St. Lawrence - a week of action intended to take a stand against our culture’s narrow definitions of beauty. This idea of body pride, of accepting parts of ourselves societal norms often tell us are…

By, Emma Hennessey We all have heard the most famous statistic about the wage gap: that women, on average, earn 79 cents for every dollar men make for the same work. This does not even account for the fact that an African-American woman…

Photo via Wikipedia My parents met working as reporters at an NPR station, so in our home, it could always be assumed that one of two noises would be playing in the background: Ira Glass’ familiar nasal droning on our radio like an…

Photos via Slate (left) and Fandom (right) My younger sister solidified her place as the assertive sibling in our family the moment she professed she would not accept rides from me to school anymore until my car was kept to her standards…

Photo via Slate It has been a week since Donald Trump was elected president. In the days following the election, I found myself paralyzed and unable to identify the weight I felt in my entire being. I felt disappointment and anger…

Photo via Business Insider Let’s first start with defining what a feminist is: or rather, who is a feminist. For me, a feminist is someone who wants equality among all. At the same time, my feminism is not exclusive. It recognizes that…

I’m a fan of those questions that sometimes (a lot of the time) elicit eye rolls and annoyed, “I don’t f*cking know,” on the second hour of SLU van trips as the Nalgene of the sleeping kid continues to slam into the back of the sauna/van. I…