by Katlynn Seghetti! Or, a gentle recap of an endlessly busy semester, and a philosophy of activism One of the main struggles people have getting involved with activism is getting...
The week the pandemic shut down all the schools, I went to the gynecologist. Over the past six months, I had been plagued by non-stop yeast infections, and I had tried every home remedy under the...
Part One: A Strange and Friendless Road, For a Tomorrow Without Tears or, being a woman (mostly), queer, and autistic. Self-diagnosing, and the fear of an official medical stamp....
To quote myself from the start of my first semester here at UMBC, “I have somewhat of a unique position in that I often find myself standing in the middle of the line–I am biracial, bisexual,...
By Carrington Cline Positionality Statement: This post is written by Carrington Cline, a junior and student staff intern at the Women’s Center. This blog post articulates my...
By Ash Acuña When I first joined the team at the Women’s Center, one of the very first things we covered were Brave Space guidelines. The three core tenets of Brave Spaces—challenge...
Amelia Meman, GWST ’15, is the Assistant Director of the Women’s Center. Amelia uses they/them and she/her pronouns. Burnt out? Me too. This is not a new feeling for me. I have gotten...
Kaitlyn is a junior Social Work major and is a student staff member at the Women’s Center. Are you feeling isolated? Lonely? Lost in a chaotic world that doesn’t make sense anymore? Me...
This post is written by Sam Hertl (they/them pronouns), a social work intern completing their field placement in the Women’s Center. *Trigger warning* There are heavy topics mentioned such as...
Alexia Petasis is an INDS intern on the Women’s Center student staff team. Alexia studies social justice and dance. In the following blog post, she runs through a list of crucial self-care...
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