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As a child, I was always very shy and timid in large groups of people. However, making friends always came naturally to me. Playtime was a time that I could break out of my shell and communicate freely with my peers. After a couple years of school and play, I began to escape my childhood shyness. For me, play was an integral aspect of my childhood development and has helped shape me into the person I am today. 

Gabrielle Smith          

Critical Feminist Studies

Anne Dalke

28 September 2014

 My Anaconda Don't Want Your Normative Feminist Standards

“Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her butt.
It is so big. 
She looks like one of those rap guys' girlfriends.
But, you know, who understands those rap guys? 
They only talk to her, because, she looks like a total prostitute, 'kay?
I mean, her butt, is just so big.
I can't believe it's just so round, it's like, out there, I mean— gross. Look!
She's just so... black!”

Motivated by the recent events on campus regarding the confederate flag, and reflecting on my experiences in Africa, I was motivated to express my opinions about social change, both domestically and abroad in this piece titled, "Sustaining the Intersectional Perspective."

I have included some media that illustrate the concepts described within.

“Gender reaches into disability; disability wraps around class; class strains against abuse; abuse snarls into sexuality; sexuality folds on top of race... everything finally piling into a single human body."

–Eli Clare, Exile & Pride, page 134

After having had several hiccups with the Health Center at Bryn Mawr College, I decided to seek out further information on why any mention of it or its employees elicits a certain look of discomfort, despair, distaste, or disenchantment from the average student. And, in doing so, I got more than I bargained for—potentially too much information to be comfortable with (given that really, the "Shaped" in the title of this paper should have a "Failed to have" in front of it). These discoveries and the resulting analysis provide the basis of this critique.

"Crips and Trannies Need to Pee Too!"

The Intersectionality of Trans* and Disabled Identities

Sula Malina

I. Are Trans Bodies Necessarily Disabled? 

Anything But What Normal Seems To Be

Because of its fastly-growing economics, Shanghai is a melting pot, attracting talented people to come, work, and settle here. The incoming people try to blend in this society; however, locals are reluctant to accept the outsiders as part of the community because they feel they are more superior, and insist using dialects to communicate but the outsiders can not understand. Automatically, the city is divided into two groups: Shanghainese and those “bumpkins”. Class does exist in our lives.