Tag: Women

All Thanks to Olivia Pope

I decided to go into academia at a panel about Scandal. It was 2015 and I was a college senior. Like millions of other fans, one weekly joy…

Damaged Goods? Learning about (Mis)information about Sexuality in the Clinic

My humanities moment connects to a book, titled Damaged Goods: Women Living With Incurable Sexually Transmitted Diseases written by Adina Nack, a sociologist and women’s and gender studies…

Unexpected Lessons in Empowerment

My Humanities Moment involves a connection between two individuals that might not initially seem to have anything in common: Jane Austen and Quentin Tarantino. One of the first…

Well-Behaved Women

My moment focuses on the fact that African American women have been using their words as Political Resistance. The humanities contributed to this moment, because my ancestors and…