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By Gwendolyn Beetham • 9 years ago

The Academic Feminist: Maggie Casey

Welcome back, Academic Feminists. Today we are happy to present Maggie Casey, the next interviewee in the Feministing Student Series. This series features the work of college and masters students whose final projects/theses focus on gender and sexuality issues.

Maggie Casey is a recent graduate of Beloit College in Wisconsin. With no current plans to return to school she spends most of her time convincing people to move to Baltimore and plotting ways to overthrow the capitalist patriarchy.

Gwendolyn: What is your thesis/final paper about?

Maggie: In our culture we often interpret medical language as neutral terminology describing natural phenomena. So often we overlook both the direct and indirect ways in which culture informs the language that we use, and in turn the ...

Welcome back, Academic Feminists. Today we are happy to present Maggie Casey, the next interviewee in the Feministing Student Series. This series features the work of college and masters students whose final projects/theses focus on gender and ...
By Gwendolyn Beetham • 9 years ago

The Academic Feminist: Sonny Nordmarken on building stronger movements through intent

Welcome back, Academic Feminists! Bringing us into the end-of-semester home stretch is Sonny Nordmarken, graduate student in Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Sonny’s explanation of microagressions and his work examining the intersections between feminist and transgender studies, as well as his personal story of coming to feminism through the comradery of sports, point to the ways that paying attention to everyday interactions can help bring us closer as activists, academics, and allies.

1. You were a women’s and gender studies minor as an undergraduate. Is this how you became interested in feminism? If not, what was the draw to feminism?

My first substantial memory of coming to feminism was in the community we created in my ...

Welcome back, Academic Feminists! Bringing us into the end-of-semester home stretch is Sonny Nordmarken, graduate student in Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Sonny’s explanation of microagressions and his work examining the intersections ...