Women and people of color are often accused of “playing the race card” and pandering to certain audiences. But what does it look like when straight, cisgender, white men play “the man card”? What are the implications of playing into traditional ideas about masculinity? I recently participated in the facilitated discussion on The Man Card…
“What’s the point of a space mission that can’t get anyone to space?” asked the head of NASA’s Space Task Force, Al Harrison, in the 2016 biographical drama Hidden Figures. Well, with the dedicated work of Katherine Goble Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, the heroines of the film, NASA’s space program ~literally~ took off….
As a WGSS major and a student who has been interested in women’s movements for most of my life, I have studied the suffrage movement in many classes and discussed it in different contexts. However, this Clarke Forum presentation put forth a new way of looking at the suffrage movement with new names, ideas, and…