As you all know from my blog post entitled, “Burning Money,” I am currently taking the class BiSci 3: Environmental Science. And as you also know from that post, my older sister Madison is very involved in the course. She was a TA her junior year and is now an LC her senior year. Because […]
Author: Morgan Phillips
Women’s March Madness
For this week’s Personal is Political, I am going to talk about the Women’s March Madness tournament. I’m not gonna lie, I am running out of ideas to do for this. Recently, all I’ve been thinking about is the star guard for Iowa’s women’s basketball team, Caitlin Clark. As some of you may know, the […]
Reproductive Rights on Trial Yet Again
Yes… AGAIN. This time, however, the Supreme Court will be hearing a case brought forth by anti-abortion groups on whether Mifepristone is permitted to be sold. WHAT IS MIFEPRISTONE? Mifepristone is an over the counter pill that can be used to end pregnancies. According to the Food and Drug Administration, who approved the drug first […]
Issue Brief Revised Intro and Outline
Title: Gender Affirming Care: The Fight to Support Transgender Youth (shoutout Barbara for the title idea <3) Over the past couple of years, anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric and legislation has been swarming across the country. Legislation have included limiting or restricting access to gender affirming care, requiring individuals to use bathrooms that align with their sex assigned […]
Burning Money
I am currently taking the course BISC 3, a course that many of you may be taking, will take, or have heard of. It is a very popular course here to fulfill gen ed requirements, and it can hold a massive class size. There’s like somewhere around 600 students in it this semester which is […]
Issue Brief Introductory Daft
Over the past couple of years, anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric and legislation has been swarming across the country. Legislation have included limiting or restricting access to gender affirming care, requiring individuals to use bathrooms that align with their sex assigned at birth, and limiting discussion and education on gender and sexual identity in schools. Such bills reinforce […]
The Question of Absolute Immunity
This past Tuesday, former President Donald Trump and his lawyers submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court urging them to rule that he is absolutely immune from criminal charges relating to his attempts to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election. In the brief, Trump’s lawyers state the importance of presidential immunity as a way of […]
Nex Benedict
On February 7, an altercation occurred in the women’s bathroom at Owasso High School in Oklahoma between several students, one of whom, was Nex Benedict. Nex was a 16 year old non-binary student who used they/them pronouns. Following the altercation, all of the students were reported by the school to have walked themselves to the […]
Book Bans
Like many people, I remember reading with my parents when I was little. I have distinct memories of my dad reading “Andrew Henry’s Meadow” to us before bed, or the times when he would read us scary stories on a random summer day. Even when I went to middle school, our teachers required us to […]
Zines!!
This week for my Personal is Political blog, I am going to talk about the amazing activist work of Zines! I am currently taking Women’s Studies 120 where we talk about a whole range of intersectional issues like reproductive health, trans rights, and sex education. The class has been awesome and I highly recommend it […]