By Zishan Khan
Contributor
I am pursuing my Master’s Degree from the Department of Computer Science at CSUSM. I was admitted to the Master’s program during fall 2013.
I was admitted as a conditional student and was required to take GRE and get a 3.5 on analytical writing, or get a research...
By Kat Diltz
Staff Writer
Innovative, strong, brave and unique. These are the words that come to mind when I think of the American women of today.
Women are fighting for equality among men, joining the military and fighting social stigmas, proving that everyone is beautiful in their own way....
By Gabri Provencio
Contributor
As many of you young women reading this may know, being a woman in today’s contemporary American society is difficult. We beat ourselves up frequently because of messages society portrays to us.
Daily, we women face a typical battle when we see the most perfect...
By Shakara Thompson
Contributor
“Don’t be a woman that needs a man, be the woman a man needs.” - Anonymous
In my 20 years of life, I have only been in two serious relationships, including the one I am in right now, and I must say that never have I needed a man.
Growing up, I was raised...
By Karri Kirby
Contributor
How can we empower women at CSUSM, or how do we even define empowerment? Does empowerment mean feeling safe, or do we even know how to use this empowerment?
Many people have different opinions about how they feel empowered or safe on campus; therefore each person’s...
By Charla Lopez
Contributor
Women’s roles across cultures and across time have been transformed and adapted. Before the masculine structure of society and religion, there was a sacred powerful role that women held and ruled from.
Shamanism is regarded by various sources to be the original...
By Jordan Taylor Waechter
Contributor
Oppression can be thought of as unjust treatment or control, mainly based on race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality, class and dis/ability. Oh no! The crowd gasps, not another woman rambling on, but hear me out.
Each "status" is a lens used psychologically...
By Kayla Richardson
Contributor
“Men fear witches because they take their power from the Earth without poisoning the soil.” -Unknown
Most of us have at least some knowledge of the fact that there was a time in history where women were burned as witches. As for who these women actually were...
By Rachel Sotomayor
Contributor
To be a woman in contemporary American society means being adaptable, independent, strong and intelligent.
I have found that there are many ways a woman can succeed in different areas of her life, but we must chose and carve out that path ourselves. As a veteran...
By Danielle Wisdom
Contributor
Growing up, I was blessed to be surrounded by strong, incredible, educated women who showed me at a young age what it looks like to be successful as a woman in the world. Looking back now, I realize that my sisters and my mother were showing me what it looks like...
By Stephanie Ruby
Contributor
As a woman living in contemporary American society, I would say I have abundant opportunities. This might seem a bit cliché considering that America is the “land of opportunities,” but it is nevertheless true.
I have the ability to freely pursue both an education...
By Jacqueline Robinson
Contributor
We cannot ignore the fact that women’s voices are still consistently marginalized.
But to hold that feminism belongs only to women, or that only women can be feminists, creates brash assumptions, ostracizes enormous number of supporters and implies that anyone...
