Small Strokes Big Oaks

This blog has grown so much in the past few months, and I feel I have grown so much with this blog and the sharing of ideas here, so I figured now is an appropriate time for a reflection.  Warning:… Read more ›

Click here to subscribe via iTunes! Transcript: Hello and welcome to the Small Strokes podcast.  This is Ashley Lauren here, and I am the author of the Small Strokes blog, which you can find at smallstrokesbigoaks.com.  This will be an… Read more ›

Teaching feminism in schools is one of the most important feminist issues of our time. In order to empower young women, we need to teach them about women’s accomplishments through history, and we need to explore teaching methods that inspire… Read more ›

Let’s start with some business: There have been some great comments about teaching feminism in schools, and I’d love to respond to every one (I started to, but it became too time consuming and, being the good teacher I am, I… Read more ›

I’m hoping this will be part 1 of many.  I’m looking for questions, suggestions, and ideas, so feel free to add yours in the comments and I’ll try my best to incorporate them in further posts. We’ve got the “why”… Read more ›

Should feminism be taught in school? It may not surprise you that my answer is an emphatic YES.  Of course, it is important to present students with multiple perspectives so that they may see that, historically, people with different perspectives… Read more ›

There is so much great stuff out there, I can’t possibly comment on all of it. I can, however, link it here for your enjoyment. Have you been reading or writing something interesting or important? Share a link in the… Read more ›

This blog has taken a turn for the personal lately.  Oh well.  It’ll turn back to the academic and professional soon enough.  And, either way, you like reading about my personal struggles.  I can tell. 🙂 As many of you… Read more ›

I have been a vegetarian for 7 years.  I gave up eating meat upon my graduation from high school (do the math 🙂 ) for two reasons, both health-related.  First, my dad had a pretty bad heart attach toward the… Read more ›

There is so much great stuff out there, I can’t possibly comment on all of it. I can, however, link it here for your enjoyment. Have you been reading or writing something interesting or important? Share a link in the… Read more ›

Bio frau sally benz is a twenty-something blogger from New York City. On her blog, Jump off the Bridge, she writes about feminism, race and ethnicity, activism, politics, and just about everything else you can think of, all through a… Read more ›

I’m firing off this post quickly today because I’m seeing two growing trends that are troubling to me: 1) Bloggers becoming angry with their commenters People are entitled to their opinions.  I am a firm believer of this.  One of… Read more ›

I stumbled upon this article: “New Study Ponders the Effect of Professors’ Gender on Students’ Success in Science.”  The article basically summarizes a study that found that women graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy that scored high on the math… Read more ›

I have said before that I try to write things on this blog that will make people proud of me, and the other day, I received one of the most amazing compliments I have ever received.  One of my former… Read more ›

Over at my personal blog, the last time the previous post was posted, I received this comment from a good friend, Chels: “If a woman is married, she has obviously taken the necessary steps in order to be a suitable… Read more ›

There is so much great stuff out there, I can’t possibly comment on all of it. I can, however, link it here for your enjoyment. Have you been reading or writing something interesting or important? Share a link in the… Read more ›

In a previous post, I discussed girl politics as the relate to Coach Tim’s volleyball team.  Today, I’d like to take that a little further and discuss woman politics.  This sort of thing doesn’t always stop just because you grow… Read more ›

This is a series of posts that first appeared over at my personal blog, and it was actually the response I received over there that made me think that keeping a feminist-leaning blog might be my calling.  It also partially… Read more ›