By Joseph Golden, MAAL The Journal of Engaged Research’s issue on feminism comes from scholars from SUNY Brockport (https://www2.brockport.edu/) in Rochester, New York, examining the intersectionality of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, (dis)ability status, and other dimensions of social identity. The students’ work demonstrates how “Feminism” is not…

By Kay Timmons How can gender be an oppressive construct and an act of self-affirmation simultaneously? If one interacts with another person, they are in the act of gendering and being gendered. Through mere exposure to society, we are taught to perceive gender and assign it to others. This happens…

By Angela Sushko This feminist manifesto consists of two artworks. The first comprises a painted canvas into which the figures are sewn. They are a mother and child torn apart by the Marxist Feminist proposed construct of waged child-rearing. Marxist ideology argues that workers are alienated from their product when…

By Shannon Regelsberger LGBTQ+ individuals face discrimination and human rights violations daily According to the Human Rights Watch website, “at least 28 transgender people were killed in the United States in 2020.” LGBTQ+ people are being oppressed, tortured, abused, and harassed globally. These awful things should not occur when our…

By Marissa Powers Everyone has body hair, yet society has made it known only to be acceptable for men to live in their natural state. The fight against shaming women who do not remove their body hair began in the 1970s, but this is still an issue today. The act…

By Catherine Muir My Manifesto is an amalgamation of me and the evolution of my shifting feminist attitudes. It can be split into two parts: my mother’s influence and unintentional feminist horror in The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick). These might seem unrelated, but I promise I’ll tie them together. I…

By Kendra Mace The word inclusivity means creating an environment where people feel welcomed. This refers to everybody, regardless of differences in sex, gender, sexuality, disability, race, etc. For over a century, the feminist movement has sought equality between men and women, but is it just men and women who…

By Barb LeSavoy, PhD The Feminist Manifesto: A written or spoken, usually public declaration of an individual or group’s ideas, principles, purposes, and intentions. Manifestos are often political and subversive in nature and convey emotion. I am thrilled to pen this essay for the Journal of Engaged Research as an…

By Riley Johnson It is critical to take an intersectional approach to appreciate the effects concerning the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Liberal feminism strictly considers how this legislation will affect cisgender women. However, it’s more than just cis women impacted by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. This is…