-By Amy Taylor, Social Work/Music Major Humans are wired for belonging. We crave connection, shared purpose, and safety within groups. But not every group that promises community delivers it....
December 11, 2025
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The Women’s Center was excited to see four of the Returning Adult Learners scholarship recipients graduate at the end of the Fall 2024 semester! Returning Adult Learners are identified as...
January 16, 2025
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Because femininity is a concept, it can be constantly reshaped, redefined, and distorted based on the beliefs of the society it exists within, and social media works to heighten and mirror that....
December 21, 2024
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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,...
May 16, 2024
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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...
November 5, 2019
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Given all the race, national origin, class-based violence, anti-blackness and anti-immigrant rhetoric in the media and the subsequent backlash from white-identified people and groups, there is a...
March 13, 2018
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In the last few iterations of our roundtable series, we’ve noticed that the classroom is, in many ways, replicated in the Women’s Center. Yes, we have beanbags and we gather together in a big...
January 31, 2018
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Student staff member Sydney has had a rocky relationship with math throughout her life. As a graduate student in the Applied Sociology program at UMBC she began to rethink her relationship with...
October 10, 2017
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Given all the race and class-based violence, anti-blackness rhetoric in the media and the subsequent backlash from white-identified people and groups, there is a growing need for mindful,...
August 4, 2015
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