EWU Women's and Gender Studies Blog

04/22/2022

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08/02/2017

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09/03/2013

According to the U.S. Department of Defense, Private LaVena Lynn Johnson killed herself on July 19, 2005, eight days before her twentieth birthday. Exactly how did she end her life? She punched herself in the face hard enough to blacken her eyes, break her nose, and knock her front teeth loose. She…

08/23/2013

"Ladies, What's Up With the 'I Feel Like' Verbal Tic? http://ow.ly/odEq1 " Good question.

When I search my Gmail inbox for the phrase "I feel like," infinity results come up. "I feel like this particular story's very up your alley," a...

05/18/2013

Following a woman from abusive relationship to SafeHouse Denver.

Each year, more than 18,000 victims of domestic violence call SafeHouse Denver’s hot line. Meet one of them.

04/22/2013

Rosie Napravnik isn’t just the most successful “girl jockey” today; she’s one of the best American jockeys, period.

04/10/2013

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On Saturday, Gina de Vries, Elena Rose, and myself brought Girl Talk: A Trans and Cis Woman Dialogue to Smith College. Girl Talk is a multi-media...

04/10/2013

In the late nineteen-sixties, Shulamith Firestone and a small cadre of her “sisters” were at the radical edge of a movement that profoundly changed American society. A month after her death, when some of the same women gathered in St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery, to pay their respects, it was hard t...

07/30/2012

What's feminism from your perspective? Your daughter's, son's, niece's, or nephew's perspective? Your friend's?

Video on msnbc.com: Nineteen-year-old Julie Zeilinger, one of More Magazine’s “New Feminists You Need To Know,” explains the road ahead for creating equality for women.

07/30/2012

Please let us know what you, the readers, would like to see written, posted, and covered!!! We need your input:D If you know of any upcoming events, please let us know about them. Thanks!

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.” At least that’s what Albert Einstein told us and I’d have to agree. I feel as if I might be insane since I keep writing without input on what the readers want to read, know or think about. So I pose this question to ...

07/30/2012

How many of you have supported local farmers at the Cheney and Spokane farmers markets? Now's the time because summer is in full swing!!