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The Handmaid's Tale - Identity

" I have been obliterated for her. I am only a shadow now, far back behind the glib shiny surface of this photograph. A shadow of a...

Tell Me Your Story, Share Your History

My great-grandmama told my grandma the part she lived through that my grandma didn't live through and my grandma told my mama what they...

Mrs. Ruby Robichek

In the book, The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith, there is a particularly lonely old woman that has quite a mysterious (a little...

LGBTQ and The Fosters

In Friday's lecture, we talked about anti-gay propaganda. As disheartening as that was to watch, it did get me thinking about how LGBTQ...

Friendship in "Passing"

Urban Dictionary defines friendship as "when you love someone with every ounce of your being and genuinely want them to be happy even if...

The Disabled Mother

Beyond the dictionary definition, what does it mean to be disabled? What does it mean to be viewed as weaker, as inefficient as a burden?...

Women Are Not Inferior

"Gosh!" said Terry, after a while. "Only women there--and children," Jeff urged excitedly. "But they look--why, this is a CIVILIZED...

‘Black-ish’ Tackles the Hard Stuff

Black-ish recently kicked off its fourth season. The second episode, appropriately titled Mother Nature dealt with an issue that many...

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