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Last night, Oprah Winfrey proved through passion, grit, and determination, anything is possible. By using a paramount platform at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards, she electrified an audience with messages that will lead girls and women from humility to heroism, subordination to supremacy, and injustice to truth. She preached specifically to all the young girls watching: “A new day is on the horizon.” Though Oprah’s message was received from a more political perspective, it could equally be as pertinent to the positive body image movement. Oprah’s powerful speech conveyed that society shapes us in more ways than we know, and how society perceives us affectsRead More →

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Merriam-Webster defines empathy: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner. I have never been sexually assaulted. I can’t claim to know the impact and weight sexual assault leaves on women, but I certainly can feel empathy. There must be more empathy in this world. If we were able to put ourselves in other people’s shoes for even just a second, and attempt to feel what they are experiencing, I am confident thisRead More →