There was an alarming amount of white women still wearing Pussyhats at the second annual Women’s March this past weekend. If you’re unfamiliar with this new and trendy “symbol of feminism,” it’s seriously okay. The Pussyhats are knitted pink beanies that have cat ears on
One of my favorite shows of all time is Gossip Girl. I’m currently four seasons into my fourth re-watch of the series. Gossip Girl is “your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite” (GG’s words, not mine). The show focuses on
Season two of Stranger Things was released a month ago. Naturally, I binge-watched it over the break. Its ubiquitous and awesome praise made it impossible to ignore—even if I tried. If you don’t know what Stranger Things is, I’m positive you’re lying. If you really
I recently attended a “Queer Faith Panel” hosted by CU Denver’s Women and Gender Center. The panel featured students and staff from the Auraria campus who identify with a queer identity and a faith identity—two things that are often autonomous of each other. Some students
“Shhh” you whisper to your screaming baby as you watch a stranger force a needle through its untouched, infant earlobes. “Shh,” you whisper again. “At least now no one will think you’re a boy.” You smile to yourself, satisfied by your work. Congratulations. You have
It’s been eight months since Jordan Peele’s Get Out was released and received outstanding reviews from critics and viewers—even scoring a nearly a perfect score (99 percent) on Rotten Tomatoes. Get Out was highly regarded as an eye-opening piece of mainstream media that exposed the
In 2014, I attended over 30 Rockies games with a good friend. In that season, we had seen just about everything. Nolan Arenado hit his first Grand Slam. Michael Cuddyer hit for the Cycle. Todd Helton’s number, 17, was retired. We attended two double headers.
An episode of Netflix’s Master of None titled, “Ladies and Gentleman,” chronicles Dev’s (Aziz Ansari) denial in coming to terms with the discrepancies in the way men and women are treated in society. A scene in the episode shows Dev in a bar with male
A clip of New York Giants’ wide receiver, Odell Beckham Jr., crying into a towel and being consoled by his teammate, punter Brad Wing, on the sideline of Sunday’s game against the Chargers quickly spread across the internet over the weekend. Subsequently, Beckham’s masculinity and
A terrorist opened fire on Sunday night in Las Vegas, killing 59 people and wounding 527. It has been named the “deadliest mass shooting” in modern American history. The Pulse Night Club shooting was called the same, and so was the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting,