Kelly Ho | Staff Writer On Friday, Mar. 28 from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the GC Ballrooms, Women in Technology Conference (WiTCON), will be showcasing workshops, activities, and empowering panels. “It’s going to be a day full of workshops, networking, and empowering underrepresented local talent in tech,” said Fer Pacheco and Meagan Alfaro […]
A study conducted at FIU by a Ph.D candidate has shed light of sexual cyberharassment in our culture. The study consisted of a survey in which women and sexual minorities have reported higher rates of having intimate photos of themselves sent without their permission. The same survey revealed that one out of 20 respondents […]
Jordan Coll/Staff Writer If we branch out and consider all the social issues that exist today, I feel feminism would be at the upmost top of this fight for social justice. Feminism takes a strong stance on liberating women from the patriarchal influence of men in various mediums of everyday life. This means redefining what […]
LaJayah Blain/ Staff Writer African American women have been historically undermined and underappreciated. Black women have been consistently considered undesirable. Some find them to be too strong willed, or too difficult to handle. These negative stigmas of African American women have caused Black women to gain such negative connotations. But why? African American women are […]
Barbara Andrade-Brites/Staff Writer Attackers always have a plan and the FIU Police Department wants women to have one too. The FIUPD offers free self-defense techniques to all female students, faculty and staff and is restricted to women only. The course runs nine to 12 hours over the course of three or four days with a […]
Image by nikki.jane via Flickr Michelle Marchante | Staff Writer michelle.marchante@fiusm.com Looking at movies today, the most basic classification you can use to define films is probably the difference between a chick-flick and a guy movie. A guy movie normally refers to an action film with a character, normally played by some macho-man like Dwayne […]
Image by merri via Flickr Jhoanna Carrascal | Contributing Writer opinion@fiusm.com Steamy, heavy-breathing and finger cringing are some of the words people use when they talk about the novel, and now film, “50 Shades of Grey.” The book is breaking records for the fastest selling paperback with just the first novel release, surpassing the […]
