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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

How using beauty filters distorted my relationship with my skin — and why I’m over it | Maia’s Inner Monologue

Maia Penzer February 28, 2025
I know how messed up it is. I use filters because I don’t like how my skin looks, and then I dislike my skin more because I’m constantly comparing it to the filtered version. It’s a version of me that doesn’t exist but somehow feels more real than my reflection.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss?

Editors October 7, 2021
The utility of the term girlboss has perhaps passed, as we as a generation begin to question the actual efficacy of utilizing capitalism to destroy the very inequalities it creates.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Gender Justice: Your lack of intersectional feminism has real consequences

Meredith Varner March 26, 2021
Feminism must be intersectional and fight for every woman — not just the ones who look like you.
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Student organization promotes the beauty of natural hair

Rachel Do March 17, 2021
"BU Naturally," founded in April 2019, is working to promote acceptance and celebration around natural hair through self-love and education in the community
Catherine Morris, Courtney Sharpe and Lyndsay Allyn Cox speak at the EmpowerHER panel on making Boston’s cultural scene more inclusive to black female artists at the Boston Athenæum Wednesday. PERRY SOSI/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

EmpowerHER event celebrates Black women in the arts

Madeline Humphrey February 20, 2020
Black women who work in Boston’s arts and culture sphere spoke at the EmpowerHER panel Wednesday evening, about how to empower women on their strive to make the art world more inclusive for all artists.
Freshman Meredith Varner paints on a fellow student's stomach for a photo shoot. BU's chapter of He for She has done an Instagram campaign of students wearing body paint. PHOTO BY JOHN LITTLE/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Writing on the Body campaign aimed at empowering women

Lillian Ilsley-Greene March 25, 2018
Boston University’s He for She chapter launched its Written on the Body photo campaign last week to highlight sexism and violence against women.
BURSTEIN: "Gilmore Girls" empowers women of our generation

BURSTEIN: “Gilmore Girls” empowers women of our generation

Sarah Burstein November 29, 2016

This past week saw two equally notable occurrences in American culture. The first, which occurred on Thursday, was the annual Thanksgiving celebration that many participated in, consuming an unholy amount...

Christian Cho speaks about identity at TEDxBU at BU Central Saturday. PHOTO COURTESY OF HARRIS ALLEN

TEDxBU sparks talk of passion, engagement in first conference

Ellen Cranley April 6, 2015

About 100 Boston University students gathered Saturday at BU Central in the George Sherman Union for the first annual TEDxBU series of talks, which centered on a singular theme — “Spark.” Eleven...

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