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Women Rock Conference empowers students at San Diego City College

March 9, 2019

City Women Rock Conference was all about women. The one-day conference held at City College on Friday contained a meaningful message that connected audience members to those who have come before them, especially women of color.

New exhibition honors women in photography

February 28, 2018

For about a month, students, faculty, and art lovers are able to visit and observe works of 50 San Diego women photographers at Luxe Gallery in downtown San...

Female photographers illuminate and inspire at Luxe Gallery

March 27, 2015

What started as a way to open conversation and connect through sharing each other's photographs, a group of female photographers came together and gave...

Don’t hand out guidelines for childhood

May 20, 2013

Last year, a video posted on Youtube went viral with a little girl named Riley who seems to see through the absurdity of trying to fit children into gender boxes.The spunky little girl stands in the middle of a toy store as she turns to the camera. Frustration is written in the adorable little creases on her face and she sort of even stamps her foot as she exclaims, “Wh...

Toys are crucial to development

Allison Browne

May 20, 2013

A boy does not know he is supposed to play with toy cars and like the color blue. A girl does not know she is supposed to like the color pink and play with toy dolls. The only reason they start believing this is because we tell them they are supposed to. Children are not black and white in their perceptions. They only see genders as opposites because we present it very sim...

There are more important things to worry about

Robert Whaley

May 20, 2013

Girls playing with Nerf guns and boys playing with Barbies, what a wonderful world. Advertisements that show these crossed gender norms seem like a good thing, they tear down the constraints of gender, equality for all. But everybody needs to focus on ripping down these ideas of man and woman and work on us all as people. Gender divides are a big problem for America, after all it took 14...

Women’s basketball season ends on a promising note

LaShawn Encarnacion

March 12, 2013

The Lady Knights head into an off-season full with a victory over the Lady Griffins of Grossmont, 64-45 on Feb. 22. The Lady Knights shot over 41 percent from the field, 39 percent of that coming from beyond the 3-point line and 35 percent from the foul line. Melanie San Nichols led the way for the Lady Knights with 17 points. Lady Knights starter Diana Leasau and reserve Maria ...