Gender

Poet Explores How Childlike "Boyishness" Exists Where You'd Least Expect It

Nicole Campbell and Frank Stasio — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:07:04 +0000

Tanya Olson will tell you that being an eight-year-old child in the world allows you a lot of room to be whoever and whatever you want. You can be a whale, a man, a spaceship, and few will tell you otherwise. After that age though, the feeling doesn't necessarily go away. She explores that desire to transform in her first book of poems, "Boyishly" (YesYes Books, 2013). Tanya Olson is a poet and an English professor at Vance-Granville Community College.

Why Comic Books Don’t Have Heroic Female Characters

Alex Granados and Frank Stasio — Thu, 02 May 2013 15:38:24 +0000

Comic book fans know the pleasure of becoming absorbed in an alternate world. One where weirdos and freaks reign supreme as superheroes and saviors. It’s the perfect escape for somebody that doesn’t feel as though they quite fit in. For Jeremy Whitley, comics were engrossing, so much so that he wanted to make his own. But then he had a daughter.

What's the Status Of North Carolina Women?

Leoneda Inge — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:35:00 +0000

Women in North Carolina vote more and have higher levels of education than men, but a new report shows there are still major struggles.

Numbers from the latest “Status of Women in North Carolina” report were presented yesterday in a Nursing Assistants clinical lab at Wake Tech, where most of the students are women. This is Hope Marr’s second week in the program. The 24-year-old single mom was in Business Management at NC-State, but had to drop out.