“Let’s just face it, we’re in a digital world and we’re not going to be going back,” Sarah Swallow, MCAS ’18, said.
News, On Campus
Colonialism Influenced Beauty Standards, Activist Says
“I used to look in the mirror everyday and hate my reflection,” Kelly said. “It’s something I still struggle with to this day.”
News, On Campus, Featured Story
Students Discuss Breaking Down Social, Physical Barriers for Disabled Students
Students discussed their experience with media representation of disabled people. They found that these representations are often of the “token person in the wheelchair,” which is a limited image of what disability looks like.
News, On Campus
Craig Ford Talks About the Voices in His Head
On Monday night, Craig Ford talked about gender stereotypes and the negative effects they can have on men and women’s body images.
News, On Campus
First Openly Transgender Man in the Military Talks Activist Work
Shane Ortega was not allowed to participate in active duty because he was transgender. He went on to help advocate for the lifting of the ban, which was passed this past July.
News, Top Story
Jean Kilbourne Attacks Ads Exploiting The Female Body
The filmmaker and advocate spoke Wednesday as part of Love Your Body Week.
News, On Campus, Features
Women’s Center, University Prepare For 15th Annual Love Your Body Week
The Women’s Center and two student leaders gear up for this year’s upcoming “Love Your Body Week.”
Top Story, Arts, On Campus
Inside Ben Flythe’s ‘Embodied Stories’
“I wanted to to convey this sense of classic beauty, especially highlighting the fact that there are so many diverse people,” Flythe explains.
Top Story, Arts, On Campus
Fourteen BC Women Confront Notions Of ‘The Good Body’
As the culminating event of Love Your Body Week, The Women’s Center presented ‘The Good Body,’ a play written by ‘Vagina Monologues’ author Eve Ensler.
News, On Campus
Students Discuss Culture And Identity Through Slam Poetry
Lily Myers’s poem “Shrinking Women” went viral on YouTube and won the “Best Love Poem” award at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
