Indigo Girls

The Journey to Love Me As a young girl you never really learn how to love yourself or mature until you go through the motions. You just start noticing how you make better decisions than the fools known as boys when you are about thirteen. You start to settle into yourself, your ways, and your groove. My mother calls it “going through the motions.” It took me all of middle school and nearly all of high school to find myself and love me. Here is the in and out of my story. The between the lines of…

Radium Girls Take-Home Quiz 1. Radium Girls displayed some very interesting signs throughout the show that helped signify crucial moments of the play. One such scene that demonstrated a very powerful and important part of the play was when Grace and Tommy picked out wallpaper. This scene signified that these people were not particularly special, but rather regular human beings from the time. The scene ended with Grace’s jaw starting to hurt; this showed how the downsides of capitalism can hurt…

“She’s Gotta Have It” is a momentous film that captures the dynamics one woman, Nola, encounters in her personal relationships, as she pursues multiple partners. Throughout the movie, Nola has three consistent partners; each possesses a distinctly different personality and manner in which they go about dating Nola. Nola is a young and successful woman who is unsure of what she wants in romantic relationships, so she seeks out multiple partners. Despite the many manipulations and domineering…

Deshpande implores women to discover themselves. Madhu writes the biography Savitribai Indorekar, Doyen of Hindustani music but Madhu doesn’t like writing the biography because she understands that it is not the original order of the story. She thinks that it is she who has the power to make changes in her story. She says, “I can take over Bai’s life ….and make Bai the rebel who rejected the conventions of her times. The feminist who lived her life on her terms. The great artist who struggled…

Taking Joy in Work: A Critical Analysis of Gendered and Racial Stereotypes in Joy The new blockbuster film, Joy, showed a lot of promise. It was billed as a woman persevering and marketing her new invention: the self-wringing mop. Presuming it would be a refreshing and feminist portrayal of women in the workplace was ultimately disappointing, though. While the film did have one or two poignant moments, the bad outweighed the good. The movie was based on a true story, so I fear audiences will let…

Esperanza’s goal is to escape Mango Street and live in a house of her own after seeing the trapped women around the neighborhood. Not only that, in “Boys & Girls” Esperanza already understands the inequality between the boys and girls in her society when she mentioned that her brothers don’t speak to her outside the house because she’s a girl. For now her observation is still innocent and childlike and limited to her siblings. She mentions also her desire for a best friend “of her own”. Without…

would lead to a misfortune. The story, “A Patchwork Fever”, by Charlotte Mary Yonge, is the story of a young girl, Frances, who must uphold the responsibilities of the house and the family while her mother goes on a trip to visit her ill mother. During her mother’s absence, she should clean, cook, wash, etc. as all women are expected to do these duties at that time. However, she is an educated girl and builds upon a…

In a time when everyone is image conscious, why should girls have all the fun? Fashion and styling are certainly not about gender which is why, we have a good number of women’s and men’s salons cropping up in every alley. Beauty is not just a woman’s domain. Men are equally aware of the latest trends and do not shy away from going for an image makeover! Hairstyling for men requires the skill of a hairstylist and experience of modern hair setting techniques. Women are not the only individuals…

Karan Russell “St. Lucy Home for Girls’ Raised by Wolves” is an abstruse baffling short story that embrace a human-like wolf pack to be taught into a human. The pack consist of three main captivating characters: Claudette, Jeanette, and Mirabella. Claudette, the narrator of this story is an average normal wolf girl that is “...Not great and not terrible, solidly middle of the pack” (232). This illusive narrative contains five stages that is written through the handbook, The Jesuit Handbook on…

My mother was well known in a rural town in Mexico. I remember being selected at six years old to try on a special dress for the annual parade, which meant I would symbolize Virgin Mary. When I was given the role, I felt a great deal of responsibility to do everything correctly. As my float drove through the main streets, I carried the heavy doll by using every fiber in my being hold my arm up; I could tell the symbolism behind the doll I was carrying meant a lot to my community, and I did not…