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Identity & female empowerment

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Breast Cancer and Body Image

Body image is a huge component of what we go through. For me, I just needed to be authentic to myself and true to what was going on with my body and accept those changes.

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De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martínez presents a radical Latina perspective on race, liberation and identity.

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Toni Morrison on Language, Evil and ‘the White Gaze’

Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, returned to Cornell March 7, 2013, for a conversation about literature, politics and, especially, language.

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FindCenterFrom women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; they are the books, the arts, the academes, that show, contain, and nourish all the world.

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500 Years of Chicana Women’s History/500 Años de la Mujer Chicana

The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to the story of Chicanas.

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Meet Rupi Kaur, Queen of the ‘Instapoets’

With almost 2 million Instagram followers, Kaur has made her straightforward poetry about love, heartbreak and womanhood a global sensation

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Work-Life Balance: Balancing Time or Balancing Identity? | Michelle Ryan | TEDxExeter

Some argue that women choose not to go into particular jobs, often because of the hours required and the sacrifices that need to be made.

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The Struggle Is Real: The Unrelenting Weight of Being a Black, Female Athlete

The cultural messages can be harsh, dehumanizing and constant

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Free the Nippleless! From Ourselves and the Shame of Living in a Society that Rarely Acknowledges Us

For women like me who lose our nipples to breast cancer, learning to love our changed bodies can be a journey.

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Redefined - V (formerly Eve Ensler)

With power, humility, and clarity, author, playwright, and activist V (formerly Eve Ensler) reveals how deep empathy creates great art (The Vagina Monologues, The Apology), why she will never stand for injustice, and what she has learned from surviving cancer and sexual abuse.

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