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Scholar Spotlight: Katrina Rbeiz
Hi everyone! My name is Katrina Rbeiz, and I am a Lebanese-American first-year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University. I’m excited to share more about my motivations and experiences as a HASTAC scholar, and to connect with other like-minded individuals! If you’d like to connect: Twitter Personal Website 1) Why did you…
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“Buzzfeed Feminism” and Feminist Discourse on Social Media Applications
When you search the word “feminism” on apps such as Tiktok and Twitter, you are met with tweets, images, and videos of mostly white women and some men, discussing how the definition of feminism is simply equality for women, consent is key, and body positivity. You are also faced with many statements titled “why…
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The Anti-Gay Agenda: The Rise of Political Homophobia in Eastern Europe
Though eastern Europe has never been an exemplary model for human rights, the past few years have engendered major concerns for the LGBTQIA+ (LGBT) community within this region. Key political leaders across eastern Europe have chosen to use the LGBT community as scapegoats for underlying societal issues and to bolster campaign platforms to garner the…
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Lessons from Rhythms of Anger(s): Learning to Listen to them
Lessons from Rhythms of Anger(s): Learning to Listen to them Anger is my crutch I hold myself upright with it —Chrystos, I Walk in the History of My People Women of Color in America have grown up within a symphony of anger at being silenced at being unchosen, at knowing that when we survive,…
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Why Do We Need Comprehensive LGBTQ+ Sex Education in the United States?
Upon graduating in the spring, I hope to pursue a career that focuses on community building and support for LGBTQ+ youth, by ensuring that they have access to comprehensive sexual health education. There are many misconceptions about the age-appropriate content that youth should be exposed to, and I hope to close that gap to…
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On the origin of language: A feminist analysis of ableism and speciesism as they relate to dominant feminist discourses
Language is so central, so fundamental to social interaction, to our becoming who we are that no one interested in influencing and inflecting their society can ignore it. —Margaret Gibbon, Feminist Perspectives on Language Language is such an intrinsic part of our everyday lives, ingrained even into the muscle structures of our faces and…
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Thinking-feeling the Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grant Showcase
“Otro Mundo es Posible”, by Beatriz Aurora, from her collection “Historias Pintadas: el color de la lucha zapatista”. Source: Araucanía Thinking-feeling the Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grant Showcase The Futures Initiative supported eight student projects with the Dr. Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grant this year. On November 11th, we came together to share…
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Power of the P*nis: Gender Performance within Women’s Prisons
Introduction At of the end of 2019, the United States had a total of 1,430,800 individuals incarcerated under state and federal jurisdiction with approximately 107,955 of them being identified as female[1] (Carson, 2020). The leading literature on the carceral system is disproportionately focused on the experience of men within the prison system as they make up…
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“If the Youth are Effeminate, then the Nation is Effeminate”: Militarized Masculinity and Xenophobic Nationalism in China
In early September this year, the Chinese government issued a document prohibiting “effeminate men on TV”. China’s mainstream news organizations have followed published a series of articles to criticize effeminate men, believing that feminine masculinity is an abnormal aesthetic that should be corrected, and this also cause a hit discussion on the Chinese Internet. In…
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Kali: A Creative Project for Social Justice Inspired by Feminist (Art) Therapy
For my first blog post on HASTAC, I want to share the start of my current work as a doctoral student in the Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication department at the University of Texas at Dallas. I have been a gender-based violence expert and social justice advocate for 15 years. It takes great pride for me to share a project…