12 Gifts for your Feminist Friends!

By Aurea Bolaños Perea, President’s Assistant Intern For these holiday season, NOW, and especially me, want to give you some ideas to what get your badass feminist friends out there this Christmas!   1. To remind yourself that yes indeed, you are a proud feminist, how about wearing something from when the Women’s Rights movement Read more …

Domestic Terror Against Healthcare Providers

By Aurea Bolaños Perea, President’s Assistant Intern   On Saturday, November 28th, 2015 at around 12pm local time, Colorado Spring’s Planned Parenthood clinic was victim of an act of domestic terrorism (let’s call it by what it is), by Robert Lewis Dear who killed three people and wounded nine others. The first thing I thought Read more …

“The Hunting Ground” Documentary And How Campus Sexual Assault Has Become Institutionalized

By Aurea Bolaños Perea, President’s Assistant Intern   In April I attended the screening of the documentary The Hunting Ground in Sacramento, where I was able to meet the producer of the film Amy Ziering, along with California State Assembly Speaker Toni G. Atkins, Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Chair Assemblymember Cristina Garcia – who is also Read more …

Transgender Awareness Week

By Aurea Bolaños Perea, President’s Assistant Intern   (source: www.sdgln.com) Transgender: an umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. People under this umbrella may describe themselves using one or more terms (trans, transgender man or transgender woman). Transgender identity Read more …