TikTok has developed a culture of promoting trends that seemingly uplift women’s voices. It is hard to find a woman’s post without “#girl____” in the description. Ansley Kang SC ‘29 sees something in common with all these feminine hashtags: Reductiveness. Feminist trends in attempting to make modern womanhood accessible, do more harm than good, flattening women’s experiences and in doing so excluding those voices that true feminism should promote.
Tag: Performative Activism
OPINION: Trump’s authoritarianism doesn’t listen to your No Kings Day cardboard signs
Trump’s administration has sanctioned a campaign of extrajudicial kidnappings, careless deportation, and general terror. It has forced those it targets to ask the permanent question of will I still be here tomorrow, every day. So why do we only show our dissent if we get a little free time, and nothing good is on TV? In the No Kings protests, Jason Murillo PO ‘28 sees performance, not praxis. Cheerfully bobbing oh-so-clever signs on streetcorners does nothing to practically oppose a regime that has no respect for the Constitution, much less polite dissent.
OPINION: A Swiftie’s “Picture To Burn”
Taylor Swift is many things to many people, but no one can deny her influence; her armies of die-hards seem ready to follow her to the ends of the earth. With great power should come responsibility, but to Nicole Teh SC ‘27, for whom Swift’s music will always conjure good memories, her actions seem more and more to represent something else.
OPINION: Performative Men are the lesser evil
As whispers of Performative Men seem to be on every lip, while they simultaneously outdo us with their ‘grams and their ‘fits, they seem to 5C students like the pestilence that can’t pass soon enough. However, to Leili Kamali PO ‘29 and Ansley Kang SC ‘29, by not interrogating the psyche driving these misunderstood men, we risk moving in a worse direction.
OPINION: Reaction to war in Ukraine shows the fine line between action and awareness
The war in Ukraine demands that we think critically about our activism and ensure we are actually making a difference on the ground, writes Annika Reff PO ’25.
Climate ACTivism: Climate Change Theatre Action spreads climate education in accessible, intimate setting
As part of a worldwide series of Climate Change Theatre Action plays, students performed eight short monologues at The Hive on Tuesday.
‘I always feel free when I dance’: Incarcerated choreographers enchant in dance film directed by Scripps College professor
As part of her residency inside the California Rehabilitation Center, Scripps College dance professor Suchi Branfman directed a short film featuring the dances of incarcerated choreographers.
Front of house: The rise of social media activism in 2020
Pop culture columnist Caelan Reeves outlines the most ethical way to support causes like Black Lives Matter using social media.