“I don’t vote because I feel like it won’t make a difference,” says Melody, a Filipino-American college graduate. Melody is a 22-year-old California native. Although she has spent most of her life in the Bay Area, she was born in the Philippine capital of Manila and immigrated to San Francisco at age five. However, despite […]
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How Much Does Feminism Cost? High Fashion and the Commercialization of #MeToo
Sheathed in black cloth and armed with badges pinned to lapels, they marched across a battlefield rolled out in red. The seasoned and the newly inducted alike faced off against swarming barrels of cameras and brandished microphones. Shoulder to shoulder they descended on a different kind of combat zone: the Golden Globes. It is not […]