by Amanda Wilcox The idea of “[insert name] with the good hair” goes far beyond a cheeky line in Beyoncé’s “Sorry.” Rather, it’s a pervasive and systematic idea that has […]
by Tiffany Uribe If you’re here on this blog right now, chances are that you have some interest in the safety of our every day products, chemical sensitivity, or reproductive/ […]
by Ankita Nair Five weeks before I started college, I walked into a hair salon with the intention of getting a keratin treatment. For years, I’d struggled to maintain my […]
By Nataliya Karashchuk In a world of clean linen and lavender scents, we are surrounded by a bubble of fragrances every single day. Smells shape our world in ways we […]
by Alexis Elliott We are living in the age of chemicals. Harmful chemicals appear everywhere, from our cleaning supplies to our cosmetics. As more information is being collected about how […]
by Vivian Anigbogu Chemicals are all around us—they are used to make our furniture fire-resistant, they are used to make our laundry detergent, and they even make up the interior […]
By Alexandra Navarro Ever since Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring, which challenged the agricultural industry’s use of pesticides like DDT, the fight for environmental justice surrounding agriculture seemed to have […]
By Paula Rodriguez-Diaz Leadership is a quality that we all have, yet many women have been conditioned to believe that they are not capable of leading and of having a […]
by Bianca N. Haro Positionality: A Mujer among Men of Color I am a light-skinned Mexicana/Latina first-generation mujer, and I identify as a Chicana born and raised in Southeast San […]
by Rocío R. García What does it mean to disappear—from the pages of history, from your own humanity, from systems of oppression? For people of Latin American descent throughout the […]
