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By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux • 13 years ago

Why Are We Still Gambling With Women’s Health?

For some college students, returning to New Jersey after a summer away, the fall semester will spark a growing wave of protest.  After all, how would you feel if you suddenly couldn’t get affordable birth control or basic reproductive check-ups at your university’s health center?  At Princeton, where I’m a senior, the possibility isn’t on many people’s radar – we’re so used to free condoms and subsidized birth control that nobody made a peep when University Health Services tripled the co-pay for its contraceptive pills last spring (although, frankly, there should have been more of a reaction).

But it will soon be a reality for students on campuses just miles from our gates, where Governor Chris Christie’s disastrous budget cuts could make it impossible for thousands of college students to access crucial health services like pap smears and STI tests without incurring serious expense.  For cash-strapped twenty-somethings, the idea of having to choose between sexual health and school tuition is, to put it mildly, upsetting.

Reproductive health is a right, not a luxury.  But Gov. Christie, in his attempts to close the deficit without inconveniencing the state’s wealthier inhabitants, doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo.  If you haven’t been following New Jersey state politics over the summer, let me recap quickly: after Christie’s threat to cut funding for women’s health came devastatingly ...
By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux • 13 years ago

Correcting the issue of college sexual harassment

I’ve been reading a lot in these last weeks before school starts, a kind of last-ditch attempt to inhale as many novels as possible before I go plummeting back into the world of academic criticism.  But the last two books that I read were not pure escapism; instead of distracting me from the fact that in two weeks, I’ll be unpacking piles of boxes and trying, finally, to come up with a senior thesis topic, they reminded me of one of the more unsavory aspects of collegiate life: sexual harassment.

This may be the only theme that Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee’s famous novel about racial tension in South Africa, and The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen’s sprawling meditation on the American family, have in ...

I’ve been reading a lot in these last weeks before school starts, a kind of last-ditch attempt to inhale as many novels as possible before I go plummeting back into the world of academic criticism.  But the ...
By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux • 13 years ago

An introduction from Equal Writes!

I’m thrilled to introduce the kick-ass writers from Equal Writes, Princeton’s one and only feminist blog, who will be writing for  Feministing Campus. We’re very flattered to be included in this exciting new project, and we can’t wait to start sharing our (hopefully) delightful mishmash of perspectives with all of you. I’ll begin by introducing myself, and then give you a sense for our other writers’ interests and backgrounds, so that you’ll have a small taste of what we hope to contribute.

I (Amelia) am a senior, majoring in Religion with a certificate (Princeton-speak for minor) in Women & Gender Studies, and I’ve been a co-editor of Equal Writes ever since the blog was founded back in September 2008. Last ...

I’m thrilled to introduce the kick-ass writers from Equal Writes, Princeton’s one and only feminist blog, who will be writing for  Feministing Campus. We’re very flattered to be included in this exciting new project, and we ...