Letters from the Heart: When Will My Body Be Mine?
Letters from the Heart: When Will My Body Be Mine? By Suad Abdoun TW: rape, SA, Dear Reader, As I scroll through the news today and digest the Supreme Court’s decision to rip away fundamental reproductive rights I am left wondering if I will ever truly own my body. I know I am lucky, having…
Hysteria and Fan Culture: Destigmatizing the Female Fad
Anna Friedman // Where an artist or piece of media finds itself with a majority female fan base, there is inevitably a number of people out there waiting to call it a craze. When the fans are primarily teenage girls, they’re almost guaranteed to become known as full on hysterical. In any space where women…
Eating Disorders and the Racist History of Fatphobia
Suad Abdoun // TW: Eating Disorder One of the most heartbreaking things about being a woman is growing up and being told that your body in its natural form is not desirable and thus you have to change it. I remember being in middle school, not thinking twice about my weight, stretch marks, or cellulite.…
The REVIVAL at UCSB 