[in]Visible Magazine

   Source Recently, dorms across the 5Cs have become home to large Post-Its asking the question, “What does it mean to be a feminist at the 5Cs?”  In my dorm, several days passed before the first responses began to trickle in. Reading these initial responses made me realize how differently I’d interpreted the question. The […]

The answer: all of them. A woman’s appearance does not make her any more or less sexually liberated than her peers. Too often, the media would like the American public to believe that the only way to be an empowered woman is to be overtly sexual, like option D. Magazine and newspaper articles, TV shows, […]

    My full name consists of two different languages mashed together with old-fashioned sensibilities – but it feels right even if it doesn’t roll off the tongue very prettily. When people have taken a stab at it, it is usually horrendously and amusingly wrong. I’ve been called “new-guy-en” and “nug-gui-en” among other things since […]

 Source At times, I think that an important linguistic distinction between assimilation and appropriation becomes lost amid our much-needed discussion about the fluidity of culture. Perhaps when, in the same argument, we start using two connotatively different words that both begin with ‘A’ and have five syllables, their distinctions become blurred. I’m really not sure, […]

  If you’re anything like me, a long day of studying is always alleviated by going to 5cdining.com and choosing a dining hall to eat in. With choices like Taco Tuesday, Mongolian Wok, and A.M in the P.M, this can be quite the ordeal, and is only exacerbated if you’re going to eat with a […]

  About a month ago I came to a realization: I had no pants. Other than a pair of plaid skinny jeans I’d begged my mother to get me in 11th grade, none of my pants fit. I’d just been wearing my girlfriend’s jeans on the days when I didn’t drape my legs in plaid. […]

I recently came across “Enigma,” a spoken word piece by Dave Anders-Richards that has been getting widespread praise from the community because it protests the sexual objectification of women. Although his thoughts are not the most profound, I agree with his general message until about two minutes in, when he addresses his male peers by […]

Emily Simmons shares her perspective on the impact of living with 900 other highly intelligent women on her intellectual self-esteem.

Do you really know what you’re singing when the latest Lil’ Wayne or Kanye West song comes onto the radio? While analyzing the lyrics of some popular hip-hop songs of today, Daysha Edewi propose that women begin to take ownership over their music before the music owns them.

In an alcohol-driven social scene, how do you fit in when you hate booze? A native New Orleanian shares in coming to terms with hating the norm while having friends who don’t.