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Fake Housewives, Get Out
In which a writer contemplates the influence of housewives, real and fake.
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At the Expense of the Invisible: the White Male Perspective of Cartoon
“Perhaps children of the early 2000s should be grateful for tamer coming-of-age protagonists who dealt with school bullies, boogers, and cursed slices of cheese within the vacuum of endless middle school.”
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Short Guide for Running
Twenty satirical directives for running in the city.
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The Long and Short: Hair
“Every time I looked in the mirror, my cropped hair reminded me that I had suffered, had experienced something that none of my peers could comprehend.”
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PERIODPALOOZA
The politics of periods and how two students are reframing our conceptions of menstruation through social justice.
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A Letter from the Publishers: Celebrating the Women*s Issue
The co-publishers of the Nassau Weekly celebrate the third-annual Women*s Issue.
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White Doll, Asian Woman
“But was my femininity forced on me, the only feasible result of a life grown around dolls and children’s books?”
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The Women of the Woody Allen Archives
Interrogating Woody Allen’s presentation of women, and defensive disclaimers that his work is merely satirical fiction.
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On Girl Math
“When feminists take things like makeup and plastic surgery and argue that we ought to uncritically ‘let women do what they want,’ it reinforces the belief that the goal of modern feminism ought to be to ‘reclaim’ an oppressive, patriarchal standard and pretend we have chosen it for ourselves.”
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Regaining Sovereignty Over Our Bodies
“We are socialized to be agreeable and raised to say yes, so it becomes ever more difficult to deny the encroaching hand of a stranger.”